Brussels: The wave of new protests broke out in several European cities and in some French foreign regions on Sundays, because protesters react, sometimes hard, to move to re-introduce the restrictions of Coronavirus.
Police and protesters clashed in the capital of Belgium Brussels, in several cities of the Netherlands and overnight until the early week in the French Caribbean region Guadaloupe.
There are new demonstrations in Austria, where the government imposes new locking and covid-19 vaccine mandates.
In Brussels, violence broke out in protest against the anti-covid steps which the police said were attended by 35,000 people.
March, in the European Union and the city government district, mostly focuses on prohibitions that are not vaccinated from places such as restaurants and bars.
It began peacefully but the police then fired water cannons and tear gas in response to protesters that threw projectiles, a AFP photographer watched.
The police told Makega news agency that three officers were injured.
Some demonstrators were trapped in Clash wearing a hood and carrying a flemish nationalist flag, while the others wore Nazi yellow stars.
The protesters burned wood pallets, and social media images showed them to attack police vans with street signs.
Protests also erupted in several Dutch cities Sunday, the third night of the riots over the restrictions on the government’s Koronavirus.
Demonstrators triggered fireworks and properties damaged in the northern cities of Groningen and Leeuwarden, as well as in Enschede to the east and Tilburg to the south, police said.
“Riot police are present in the middle to restore order,” Groningen police spokesman told AFP.
The authorities issued an emergency order in Enschede, near the German border, ordered people to stay on the streets, police said on Twitter.
Football matches in the nearest city of Leeuwarden were briefly disrupted after supporters, which were prohibited from the game because of Covid restrictions, threw fireworks to the ground, the Dutch media reported.
On Friday night, there was a riot in Rotterdam and last night in the Hague.
So far, more than 100 people have been arrested throughout the country and at least 12 people were injured during a demonstration.
And in Austria, around 6,000 people gathered in Linz City in a protest organized by new political parties, the day after 40,000 marched in Vienna over partial locking.
From Monday, 8.9 million Austrians will not be allowed to leave home unless they go to work, shop for needs and sports.
And vaccination against Covid-19 in Alpine’s country will be mandatory from February 1 next year.
Troops headed to Guadeloupe on Sunday after a week of riots over Covid steps, while Prime Minister Jean Castex will hold a meeting in Paris with officials from the French Caribbean island.
The streets remained obstructed on Sunday after protesters opposed the night hours looting and burning shops and pharmacies overnight, when police made 38 arrests and two members of the security forces were injured.
Dusk-to-dawn night curfew arranged to last until Tuesday.
Guadeloupe’s prefecture said the protesters had opened fire on security forces and firefighters.
The level of vaccination against Covid is lower in some French foreign regions than on the mainland, but the government warns Sunday that even there, there are signs of increased infection.
“The fifth wave starts at lightning speed,” Gabriel Attal government spokesman said to the media.
Europe fought against other infection waves and several countries have tightened sidewalk despite high levels of vaccination, especially in the west continent.