Tuesday night passes relatively peacefully after
appeals for calm
Society
January 26, 2021
The fourth
night of curfew in the Netherlands passed off relatively peacefully, police and
other officials said on Tuesday evening, following three days of riots.
Although there were a handful of arrests, there were no serious incidents, and
television footage showed a heavy police presence on the streets. ‘We are on
top of the situation and we are talking to people,’ police chief Willem
Woelders told current affairs show Nieuwsuur. ‘There has been no reason to
bring in the riot police or other forces and it is different to yesterday.’
There were 33 arrests in Rotterdam, mainly for illegal assembly and being
unable to show ID, broadcaster NOS reported. In the district of Osdorp in
Amsterdam, riot police were able to disperse a group of youngsters who had been
lighting fireworks without any problems, NOS said. In Maastricht and Den Bosch,
groups of football fans took to the streets to ‘protect their cities against
rioters’, but, it later transpired, were not sanctioned to patrol by police, as
had been reported on social media. Officials had evoked their emergency powers
to deal with public order offences in a string of towns and cities, including
Den Bosch, Eindhoven, Haarlem, Breda, Maastricht, Leiden, Sittard-Geleen, and
Capelle aan den IJssel, news website Nu.nl reported. In the event, it remained
quiet in most places, and groups of youngsters dispersed when ordered to do so,
news website Nu.nl said. Earlier in the evening, various mayors had called on
parents to keep their children home amid fears of further trouble. The youngest
of the 184 rioters arrested on Monday evening was 14. MPs will debate the riots
on Wednesday, amid calls from far right parties for the army to be put on
standby.
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