Seven people were wounded in all in Rotterdam including policemen. They are still in the hospital,' the police said, adding that the Dutch national criminal investigation department would probe 'whether the injuries were caused by police bullets'. 'Three rioters were injured when they were hit by a bullet. The latest demonstrations followed the Rotterdam unrest in which police said they had fired both warning and targeted shots and used water cannon. We come in peace,' he said.Īround him the mood was festive, with some protesters dancing behind floats carrying DJs, dubbed 'party buses'. 'People want to live, that's why we're here,' said organiser Joost Eras.īut 'we're not rioters. Organisers said they opposed Prime Minister Mark Rutte's plans to exclude the unvaccinated from bars and restaurants. Rotterdam mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb denounced the previous night's rioting as an 'orgy of violence' Jeffrey Groeneweg ANP/AFP

Police arrested several people in the working class Schilderswijk neighbourhood of The Hague, with plainclothes officers at one point dragging a woman out of a car, AFP correspondents saw.įive police officers were injured, with one taken to hospital suffering concussion and two suffering hearing damage from loud fireworks, The Hague police said in a statement. Yilmaz said police had dragged several people out of his shop, smashed the glass in its front door and hit him on the hand 'for no reason.' 'These people out here are protesting about 2G and the lockdown,' Hague pizza shop owner Ferdi Yilmaz told AFP. Peaceful protests involving thousands of people opposed to plans to limit unvaccinated people from access to certain venues took place in cities in the Netherlands earlier on Saturday, but the atmosphere changed late on Saturday. The Netherlands went back into Western Europe's first partial lockdown of the winter last Saturday with at least three weeks of curbs, and is now planning to ban unvaccinated people from entering some venues, the so-called 2G option. The previous night an 'orgy of violence' broke out in the port city of Rotterdam, during which three people were wounded when police opened fire and 51 suspects were arrested. Riots also erupted in the central 'Bible Belt' town of Urk and cities in southern Limburg province, while angry fans disrupted two football matches being played behind closed doors because of coronavirus rules, Dutch media said. Five police officers were injured and at least seven people arrested. Officers in riot gear charged groups of demonstrators in The Hague, while a water cannon was used to put out a pile of blazing bicycles at a busy intersection.

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