Den Haag: Fresh riots broke out on Saturdays on the steps of the Koronavirus of the Dutch Government, with rioters pelting police with stones and fireworks as protests turned into violence for the second night in the Netherlands.
Officers in riot equipment loaded with demonstrators in the Hague, while the water cannon used to remove a pile of bikes that lit up at a busy intersection.
Five police officers were injured and at least seven people were arrested.
Riots also erupted in the city of “Bible Belt” Central Urk and cities in South Limburg Province, while fans were angry with two soccer matches played behind the door closed due to the rules of Coronavirus, the Dutch media said.
The night before a “violent orgy” broke out in the port city of Rotterdam, where three people were injured when police fired and 51 suspects were arrested.
The Netherlands returned to the first partial locking of Western Europe in the winter last Saturday with at least three weeks of restrictions, and now planning to ban people who were not vaccinated into several places, called 2G options.
Peaceful protests involving thousands of people opposed plans to limit people who were not vaccinated from access to certain places to occur in cities in the Netherlands on Saturday, the atmosphere changed on Saturday.
“These people here protest about 2G and Kuncian,” Shop owner Pizza Hague Ferdi Yilmaz told AFP.
“They are angry about it.” Yilmaz said the police had dragged several people from his shop, destroying the glass at his front door and hit him in hand “for no reason.” The police arrested several people in the Schilderswijk worker in the Hague, with plainclothes officers at one point dragging a woman from a car, the AFP correspondents saw.
Five police officers were injured, with someone taken to the hospital suffering from brain concussion and two suffered hearing damage from hard fireworks, police said Den Haag in a statement.
A stone thrown by the rioters destroyed the ambulance window which passed to bring a patient, they said.
Separately supporters break into the two first division soccer matches in the western city of Almmaar and the eastern city of Almelo, between AZ-NEC and Heracles-Fortuna Sittard, which is being played without fans due to covid restrictions.
The game was stopped for a few minutes, the Dutch media said.
Previously several thousand protesters on the latest steps gathered in Amsterdam on Saturday, even though the previous group on that day had canceled their rally due to violence the night before.
Thousand other marching through the southern city of Breda near the Belgian border, carrying banners with slogans like “no locking”.
The organizer said they opposed the plan of Prime Minister Mark Rutte to exclude who were not vaccinated from the bar and restaurant.
“People want to live, that’s why we are here,” said the organizer of the JOOST era.
But “We are not rioters.
We come peacefully,” he said.
The surroundings of the mood was lively, with several protesters dancing behind Floats carrying DJs, nicknamed the “party bus”.
The latest demonstrations follow Rotterdam’s riots where the police said they had fired warnings and shots targeted and used water cannons.
“Three rioters were injured when they were beaten by bullets.
They were still in the hospital,” Police said, adding that the Dutch National Criminal Investigation Department would investigate “whether the injury was caused by police bullets”.
Seven people were injured in all in Rotterdam including the police.
Half of those arrested underage and rioters came from various parts of the country, police said, who were still looking for more suspects.
Police said before they had fired a few warning shots but that “at one point the situation became very dangerous so the officers felt compelled to shoot the target”.
The Mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed about Halyab, who denounced what he called “Violent Orgy”, added: “The police felt the need to draw police guns in the end to defend themselves.” The Dutch government also condemned violence in Rotterdam as “terrible”.