The Hague, Sep 21 (UNI) At least 30 people were detained for riots in The Hague, two police officers were injured, the mayor of the city, the police chief and the prosecutor said.
“We were faced with an unprecedented outbreak of violence. The peaceful demonstration had to be dispersed, since the security of those present could no longer guarantee,” the city’s mayor, Jan van Zanen, said, as quoted by the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper.
According to the mayor, hooligans from all the Netherlands came to the demonstration: they attacked the police, their horses and journalists.
Police chief Karin Krukkert said that at least 30 people had been detained as a result of the riots, most of the detentions were carried out for public violence against the police. Some of those detained remain in custody, while others are released, but new arrests may follow.
According to Krukkert, two police officers were injured, but they already feel good.
On Saturday, a rally against the migration policy of the Dutch authorities was held in the Hague. The protest rally resulted in a clash with the police and then in riots in different parts of the city. Participants in the rally set fire to a police car and threw law enforcement officers with stones. The police used water cannons to disperse the protesters.
Although the demonstration was dispersed, certain groups of aggressively tuned protesters continued to remain near the station and provoke the police. Police officers armed with batons began to track demonstrators and conduct detentions.
In addition, participants in the riots in the Hague knocked out glasses in the windows on the ground floor of the headquarters of the Democrats 66 (D66) party and set fire to the garbage tank at the entrance. As eyewitnesses told RIA Novosti, a group of aggressive people gathered at the party’s office shouted calls to close refugee centers in the Netherlands.
Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof called violence against the police and vandalism in relation to the D66 office unacceptable.
