A demonstration for a stricter asylum policy on the Malieveld got out of hand. The police were attacked and the windows of the D66 party office were thrown in. A police car also went up in flames. Several police vehicles were destroyed.
Malieveld Theater of Extreme Violence: For example, the Els ‘Right’ demonstration was able to derail completely
“Unheard and the Netherlands unworthy,” said Mayor Jan van Zanen of The Hague about the riots. The mayor also spoke of an “unprecedented eruption of violence,” in which “groups of hooligans from all parts of the country” had come to The Hague. “This was not a demonstration, these were deliberate riots.”
“The police are attacked, horses are attacked, journalists are attacked,” said Van Zanen. “That rig came from all over the country.” In this context, according to the mayor, “Hooligans is more a typing than having football”.
Police had not provided the outburst of violence The Hague
The police said that most arrests were made to commit open violence against the police. Some of them are still stuck, others are released again, but remain the suspect. The expectation is that more arrests will follow. About how much, Darned Deputy Chief Officer of Justice Frank van Dijk of the Public Prosecutor’s Office Die Haag did not make any prediction.
Organizer Els in Tears after violent riots in The Hague: ‘I am completely sick’
The enormous outburst of violence had not foreseen the police, it was told during the press conference. The police said they had a good number of people. “But that about 1200 people commit this violence to us, I am really blood -chagry about that,” said Karin Krukkert of the police in The Hague.
She said that the wounded agents are doing well according to circumstances. “But the question remains what it does with people, mentally and physically in the long term. Experience shows that more may come in the days after.” She said he did not know if rioters were injured.
In addition to the wounded agents, six journalists were also injured, reports secure. According to the organization, a reporting point for violence and aggression against journalists, it concerns five photographers and one TV journalist. Earlier the organization said it had received two reports from journalists. They were attacked from behind by demonstrators and got big blows. ” They didn’t have to go to the hospital.
Van Zanen: no extra security D66
Van Zanen said that despite the destruction at D66 there are no plans to protect the buildings of political parties. The mayor said he had learned a lesson from the events in his city. “If a large group as a kind of herd wants to use coarse violence and we want to respond proportionally, then you can hardly win that.”