Mounted officers and water cannon were deployed against an anti-lockdown party in the middle of a park in Brussels, Belgium on Friday. A larger gathering was broken up at the same spot the day before.
Officers, both on foot and on horseback, pushed people out of the Bois de la Cambre park in the country’s capital. Some were filmed hiding behind the trees as they were blasted with a water cannon.
Brussels police spokesperson Ilse van de Keere told reporters that 10 people were arrested for public disturbance on Friday and one was apprehended for attacking a police horse. There were no injuries. The window of a squad car was smashed.
One of the event’s attendees told Ruptly that young people were “fed up” with the lockdown. “I’m more in favor of holding us accountable individually rather than banning us from doing anything,” he said.
On Thursday, police broke up a much larger gathering at the park, where up to 2,000 people showed up for a festival-type event which was initially announced as an April Fools’ joke. Glass bottles were thrown at police during the ensuing clashes, which left 26 officers and eight civilians injured.
Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden described the illegal event as “slap in the face” for anyone respecting Covid-19 restrictions. At the same time, she said that an investigation was opened into reports that police may have used excessive force on Thursday.
Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!
Mounted officers and water cannon were deployed against an anti-lockdown party in the middle of a park in Brussels, Belgium on Friday. A larger gathering was broken up at the same spot the day before. Read Full Article at RT.com Read More
The agreement announced on Friday in Beijing regarding the normalisation of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran and the reopening of their embassies is a historic event. It goes way beyond an issue of Saudi-Iranian relations. China’s mediation signifies that we are witnessing a profound shift of the tectonic plates in the geopolitics of […]
“The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets, and the faithful our soldiers.” Thus spake Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 1997 when he was still mayor of Istanbul. For that, he earned a conviction for inciting religious hatred. Turkey was still trying to be a European-style secular country, even dreaming of […]
Church In Indonesia Rocked By Twin Suicide Bombing On Palm Sunday Coming a week before Christians around the world celebrate Easter, a packed Roman Catholic church in Indonesia has been targeted by two suicide bombers during a Palm Sunday service. It happened on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island and the blast injured at least 20 people. The explosives were reportedly […]
