Three people were being treated in hospital in Rotterdam on Saturday after they were seriously injured when police fired shots during a demonstration against Covid-19 restrictions.
In what the Dutch city’s mayor described as an “orgy of violence”, crowds of several hundred rioters torched cars, set off fireworks and threw rocks at police during the protests on Friday evening. Police responded with warning shots and water cannon.
Police said on Twitter on Saturday that 51 people had been arrested, about half of whom were under 18.
“Three rioters were wounded when they were hit by bullets, they remain in hospital,” police added, in an update after earlier reporting two wounded.
The mayor, Ahmed Aboutaleb, told reporters in the early hours of Saturday morning that “on a number of occasions the police felt it necessary to draw their weapons to defend themselves” as rioters rampaged through the shopping district, starting fires and throwing stones and fireworks at officers.
“They shot at protesters. People were injured,” Aboutaleb said.
Photos in Dutch media showed at least one police car on fire and another with a bicycle smashed through the windscreen. Police said city authorities had closed the city’s main railway station.
Riot police and the use of water cannon quelled the unrest after midnight.
See pics and the rest here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/19/the-netherlands-rotterdam-police-open-fire-as-covid-protest-turns-violent
People treated will probably die of Covid.
You know these “riots” are way overdue when the mayor of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands is named Ahmed Aboutaleb! WTF?! I grew up all through my childhood knowing that the Dutch were a fair-skinned, blonde-haired race of people. Say what you want about that but that’s the truth. All of this “multicultural” BS has all taken place since WWII & most prominently in the last decade or so & now you have middle-easterners as the mayors of major European cities! When you know who’s behind all this sh*t & it is demonstrated even further by seeing video of buses with 6-pointed stars on the side of them shipping these people across borders it leads to the same 3 words every time… F*CK THE jews!!!
True dat. And Sadiq Khan is the mayor of London. Also one glance at our congress confirms similar. And then they play the race card which is really the divide-and-conquer card when we know fully it has nothing to do with color of skin but everything to do with destroying cultures, which is actually an attempt to destroy loyalty. All this to defuse that which would stand in the way of their full global conquering. I celebrate that American Nationals come in all colors.
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