EDE, NETHERLANDS -- Dutch police have arrested more than 30 people during unrest in The Hague and other towns in the Netherlands that followed an "orgy of violence" the previous night at a protest against COVID-19 restrictions.
Police said Sunday that they arrested 19 people in The Hague and used a water cannon to extinguish a fire on a street.Two soccer matches in the country's top professional league were briefly halted when fans -- banned from matches under a partial lockdown in force in the Netherlands for a week -- broke into stadiums in the towns of Alkmaar and Almelo.
In the southern towns of Roermond and Stein, police said they arrested a total of 13 people for setting fires and throwing fireworks, and in the fishing village of Urk police arrested eight people for public order offenses, Dutch broadcaster NOS reported. Tens of thousands of protesters also took to the streets of Vienna on Saturday after the Austrian government announced a nationwide lockdown beginning Monday to contain skyrocketing coronavirus infections.Police in Rotterdam said that three rioters were hit by bullets and investigations were underway to establish if they were shot by police on Friday night. The condition of the injured rioters wasn't disclosed.
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