Rioting youths in Dutch village torch virus testing center
URK, Netherlands (AP) – Rioting youths protesting on the primary evening of a Dutch curfew torched a coronavirus testing facility and threw fireworks at police in a Dutch fishing village.
Police mentioned Sunday they fined greater than 3,600 individuals nationwide for breaching the curfew that ran from 9 p.m. Saturday till 4:30 a.m. Sunday and arrested 25 individuals for breaching the curfew or for violence.
Video from the village of Urk, 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of Amsterdam, confirmed youths breaking into the coronavirus testing facility close to the village’s harbor earlier than it was set ablaze Saturday evening.
The police and municipality issued a press release Sunday expressing their anger at rioting, “from throwing fireworks and stones to destroying police cars and with the torching of the test location as a deep point.”
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“This is not only unacceptable, but also a slap in the face, especially for the local health authority staff who do all they can at the test center to help people from Urk,” the native authorities mentioned, including that the curfew could be strictly enforced for the remainder of the week.
A police officer takes photographs of a torched coronavirus testing facility in the Dutch fishing village of Urk, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, after it was torch Saturday evening by rioting youths protesting on the primary evening of a nation-wide curfew. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
On Sunday, all that remained of the moveable constructing used to manage coronavirus checks was a burned-out shell.
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Police in Amsterdam additionally had been bracing for an additional protest Sunday, sending officers to a sq. the place demonstrators clashed with police per week in the past. The metropolis’s municipality designated the sq. a “risk area,” a transfer that gave police additional powers to frisk individuals.
