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  • Dutch police arrest around 200 in a night of rioting nationwide (lots of stores plundered)

    01/24/2021 11:29:42 PM PST · by knighthawk · 29 replies
    Dutch News ^ | January 25 2021
    Around 200 people have been arrested, mostly in Amsterdam, after riots broke out in at least 10 cities across the Netherlands on Sunday evening. Trouble first flared in Amsterdam and Eindhoven, where anti-coronavirus measure protestors turned up to demonstrate even though the gatherings had been banned. As the 9pm curfew approached, gangs of youths began attacking police in several other cities, including Tilburg and Enschede, where youngsters threw stones at the local hospital. It was forced to call in extra security. Although the protests were ostensibly to protest about the curfew and other coronavirus measures, commentators said many appeared to...