Violent clashes erupt during anti-lockdown demonstrations in Europe

They added that one demonstrator threw a stone via the window of an ambulance, which was transporting a affected person to a hospital.Thousands of protesters attended a largely peaceable march in the capital Amsterdam on Saturday. Dutch public broadcaster, NOS additionally reported rioting in the city of Urk and cities in southern Limburg province. The protests observe violent clashes on Friday evening in the port metropolis of Rotterdam, during which police had been compelled to fireplace gunshots to disperse the gang, and 51 individuals had been arrested. Elsewhere, an estimated 40,000 individuals on Saturday crowded the streets of Vienna in the nation's largest coronavirus-related protest thus far. Police tried to de-escalate the protest and when the "mood was about to tip," they stopped fining these not sporting facemasks, Franz Eigner, Vice President of the Vienna police mentioned during a press convention on Sunday. Some cops had "unidentified liquid" sprayed on them, and protesters had been attempting to blind a helicopter with a laser, Eigner mentioned. A small variety of protesters had been "extremely prone to violence," Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer mentioned during the press convention, which he related to the "right-wing extremist scene."

Austria will re-introduce a nationwide partial lockdown on Monday and make coronavirus vaccinations obligatory from February subsequent yr. More than 1,400 cops had been deployed throughout the nation to keep up public order, in response to a police assertion. Pepper spray was used in one "heated" protest in central Vienna, the police assertion added. France despatched dozens of elite police and counter-terrorism officers to its Caribbean island of Guadeloupe Saturday following looting and arson in a single day in defiance of an in a single day curfew. The island's prefect on Friday launched the stay-at-home order after protests in opposition to the vaccine move spiralled into violence the earlier evening. The inside ministry mentioned 31 individuals had been arrested. Around 15,000 individuals on Saturday protested in Zagreb in opposition to the Croatian authorities's coronavirus measures. From Monday, solely individuals with Covid passports can enter authorities and public buildings in Croatia.