November 20, 2021
- Dutch police have shot and wounded at least two people after rioting erupted in Rotterdam over new Covid-19 measures.
Protesters threw rocks and fireworks at them and set police cars ablaze.
Hundreds of protesters had gathered to show their anger at government plans for a Covid vaccine pass, and a ban on fireworks on New Year’s Eve.
The Netherlands imposed a three-week partial Covid lockdown last week as cases surged.
Seven people were injured in total and at least 20 arrested in a night condemned by Rotterdam’s mayor as “an orgy of violence”.
Police fired warning shots and direct shots “because the situation was life-threatening”, a police spokesperson told Reuters news agency.
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