According to the authorities, about 1.5 thousand The demonstrators left the designated place of the assembly to the nearby A12 motorway. The police reported that the officers were thrown in stones and bottles, and a police car was set on fire. On portal X, the services announced the use of water cannons and prevention troops. The road has already been unlocked and access to it.
According to estimates, about 15,000 were to appear at the demonstration itself. people. One of the organizers called from the stage so as not to enter the highway. “Only the left -wing madmen from Extinction Rebellion do that, we don't,” he said. Some participants did not listen to him.
The organizers of the demonstration, including the initiator known as ELS Rechts, previously appealed to preserve the peaceful character of the protest. On Malieveld – a square, which is located in the center of Hagi – the participants, however, started fireworks and waved the flags, including the controversial “Prinsenvlaggen” (flags of the Dukes of Oranian), associated with the Dutch National Socialist Movement (NSB), which during World War II collaborated with Germany, and now used by the extreme right.
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A flag with the image of the Dutch policy of Pima Fortuyn and the radical right -wing influencer from the USA Charlie Kirk, shot in September, appeared on the stage on the stage.
Right leader in the Netherlands: You have to deal hard
He referred to events on the X Geert Wilders, the leader of the far -right, anti -immigrant Freedom Party (PVV). He wrote that “you have to deal with these bandits hard” and emphasized that blocking the highway and violence against the police are completely unacceptable. He called the perpetrators “idiots”.
The demonstration was organized in the context of the debate on the tightening of migration and asylum policy in the Netherlands, which was one of the main axes of disputes in election campaigns and coalition talks, and led to the collapse of the coalition of Prime Minister Dick Schoof. Currently, PVV is in the first place in the polls. Elections to the second Chamber of Parliament are scheduled for October 29.
