Protests in European countries against new Covid-19 restrictions turned violent over the weekend as cases continue to rise in the continent
Rioting broke out at The Hague on Saturday over the Dutch government's new coronavirus measures. Video from the scene shows riot police deploying water cannons and charging groups of demonstrators. The Netherlands re-entered three weeks of partial lockdown last Saturday and is now planning to ban unvaccinated people from entering some venues.
Some police officers had"unidentified liquid" sprayed on them, and protesters were trying to blind a helicopter with a laser, Eigner said. A small number of protesters were"extremely prone to violence," Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said during the press conference, which he associated with the"right-wing extremist scene.
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