The police arrested nineteen people on Wednesday evening who did not want to leave distribution centers in Bleiswijk. The Rotterdam police reported this on Thursday morning on Twitter† The ME has been deployed to remove the demonstrators.
The actions took place on the Facetlaan and the Laan van Mathenesse in Bleiswijk. In this area are distribution centers of Hoogvliet, Jumbo, Aldi and Albert Heijn. „A group of activists blocked [sic] the grounds for the third night in a row.”
When the demonstrators did not want to leave after several warnings, the police decided to arrest them. The tractors were taken elsewhere. NU.nl reports on the basis of the police that there are also nine minors among the detainees. Against NRC A spokesperson says that minors were indeed involved in the protests, but he does not know whether they have been arrested.
hay bales
The fire brigade also came out on Wednesday evening to extinguish hay bales that farmers had set fire to along the road. Images of 112 Green Heart show smoking remains on the edge of the business park in Bleiswijk. A spokesperson for the Rotterdam-Rijnmond Safety Region confirms that the fire brigade was “asked to do some extinguishing work” around 9 o’clock in the evening.
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