The Brussels police made 159 arrests last New Year’s Eve. Trams and buses were also damaged and cars burned out. The spokesperson for the Brussels fire brigade speaks of “a very turbulent New Year’s night”. The emergency services had to respond hundreds of times. “Several firefighters have been targeted by stone throwers, including people who shot horizontal fireworks and threw Molotov cocktails,” the spokesperson said. The police were also attacked with fireworks. VTM NEWS journalist Rosalie Pieters and her team received a cobblestone through the window of their car on the Lemmensplein in Anderlecht on New Year’s Day when they were shooting a report there.
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