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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 26 January 2021
Dutch police use tear gas, water cannon amid rioting

By MIKE CORDER tra powers to keep people
Associated Press away from certain loca-
THE HAGUE, Netherlands tions amid reports of pos-
(AP) — Groups of youths sible riots there. At least
confronted police in Dutch one store in Nijmegen was
towns and cities Monday shown on Dutch television
night, defying the country’s being boarded up as a
coronavirus curfew and precaution.
throwing fireworks. Police in Bruls, who chaired a meet-
the port city of Rotterdam ing of security officials Mon-
used a water cannon and day, said despite the vio-
tear gas in an attempt to lence, he didn’t advocate
disperse a crowd of rioters. further limiting demonstra-
Police and local media re- tions.
ported trouble in the capi- You should be very reluc-
tal, Amsterdam, where at tant to limit the right to
least eight people were demonstrate,” he said, not-
arrested, the central city ing that the rioting Sunday
of Amersfoort, where a car happened at protests that
was turned on its side, and already had been banned
other towns before and af- by local authorities.
ter the 9 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. In this image made from video, a burnt out COVID-19 testing center is seen after being set on fire Police in Eindhoven said
curfew began. in Urk, 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of Amsterdam, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. Monday they have de-
It was the second night of Associated Press tained 62 suspects and
unrest in towns and cities In the southern town of to do with protesting, this 190 people amid rioting at have launched a large-
across the Netherlands that Geleen, police tweeted is criminal violence and a banned demonstration scale investigation to iden-
initially grew out of calls to that youths in the down- that’s how we’ll treat it.” Sunday. tify and arrest more. One
protest against the coun- town area were throw- Worst hit Sunday was the The rioting coincided with woman not involved in the
try’s tough lockdown, but ing fireworks. Riot police southern city of Eindhoven, the first weekend of a new rioting in Eindhoven was in-
degenerated into vandal- charged at protesters in where police clashed with national coronavirus cur- jured by a police horse.
ism by crowds whipped up The Hague. hundreds of rioters who few, but mayors stressed Local residents went to the
by messages swirling on so- Dutch media reported calls torched a car, threw rocks that the violence wasn’t scene of the rioting Mon-
cial media. on social media for further and fireworks at officers, the work of citizens con- day morning to help in the
Rotterdam police said violent protests even as the smashed windows and cerned about their civil lib- cleanup operation.
youths took to the streets country struggles to con- looted a supermarket at its erties. On Sunday, rioters threw
“seeking a confrontation tain new coronavirus infec- railway station. “These demonstrations are rocks at the windows of a
with police.” Riot officers tions, hospitalizations and “My city is crying, and so being hijacked by people hospital in the eastern city
attempted to break up the deaths. am I,” Eindhoven Mayor who only want one thing of Enschede. On Saturday
violence and made a num- Police in the southern town John Jorritsma told report- and that is to riot,” Hubert night, youths in the fishing
ber of arrests, before firing of Goes and the North Hol- ers Sunday night in an Bruls, mayor of the city of village of Urk torched a
tear gas. Police warned land province said they de- emotional impromptu news Nijmegen and leader of a coronavirus testing facility.
people to stay away from tained people on suspicion conference. He called the group of local security or- Police in the southern prov-
the area. National broad- of using social media to call rioters “the scum of the ganizations, told news talk ince of Limburg said military
caster NOS showed video for rioting. earth” and added “I am show Op1. police were sent as rein-
of police using a water “It is unacceptable,” Prime afraid that if we continue Nijmegen was one of a forcements to two cities.
cannon and reported that Minister Mark Rutte said down this path, we’re on number of towns and cit- The Netherlands has seen
some shops had been loot- earlier Monday of rioting our way to civil war.” ies that issued emergency over 13,600 confirmed virus
ed. Sunday. “This has nothing Amsterdam police arrested decrees giving police ex- deaths in the pandemic.q

EU wants full recognition for UK envoy in post-Brexit spat

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Euro- than a country. countries “without a single
pean Union called Monday Vale de Almeida would be exception.”
on the United Kingdom to entitled to immunity from “It’s not a friendly signal;
grant the EU’s first-ever am- taxation and prosecution, the first one the United King-
bassador to the country full among other rights accord dom has sent to us immedi-
diplomatic status after the to ambassadors, under the ately after leaving the Euro-
government in London de- Vienna Convention. pean Union. If things have
clined to accord him those “We will not accept that to continue like this there’s
rights, but gave no clear the United Kingdom will no good prospects,” said
signal that it would take re- be the only country in the Borrell, almost exactly a
taliatory action. world that doesn’t recog- year after Britain officially
In a post-Brexit spat, Prime nize the delegation of the left the EU in an acrimoni-
Minister Boris Johnson’s European Union (as) the ous divorce. A general view of Europe House the official Delegation of the
government is refusing to equivalent of a diplomatic “We do not ask for some- European Union office to the United Kingdom in London, Friday,
grant full diplomatic status mission,” EU foreign policy thing new, or we don’t ask Jan. 22, 2021.
to Joao Vale de Almeida, chief Josep Borrell said af- for special treatment,” he Associated Press
the 27-nation EU’s envoy to ter chairing a meeting of said. Borrell gave no indica- The U.K. foreign office said and immunities necessary
the U.K, which left the bloc the bloc’s foreign ministers. tion of what the EU might last week that “the EU, to enable them to carry
last year. London says the Borrell said that EU delega- do if the problem isn’t re- its delegation and staff out their work in the U.K.
EU is an organization, rather tions are recognized by 143 solved soon. will receive the privileges effectively.”q