Protest against new covid restrictions in Netherlands, Austria, Croatia, and Italy

Mobs hurling fireworks in Hague — Mobs hurling fireworks and set fire to bicycles in Hague to protest ag.ainst new three-week lockdown measures

Fireworks and chaos has erupted in Hague, Netherlands, for a second night against new lockdown rules amid record spike in Covid-19 cases in Europe, as Netherlands imposed a three-week partial lockdown last Saturday. Netherlands has over 1000 daily cases per million people.

Hooded rioters set fire to bicycles on the streets of Hague, as riot police used horses, dogs and batons to chase the crowds away and enforced an emergency order in the city, arrested seven people.

According to police someone threw a rock through the window of a passing ambulance carrying a patient, as five police officers were injured with one taken away by ambulance for knee injury.

The unrest follows a night of riots in Rotterdam prompting city’s mayor to compare the unrest “as orgy of violence”. Police fired warning shots and direct shots “because the situation was life-threatening”.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said it was “very worried” about rising coronavirus cases on the continent.