The heterogeneous gatherings of opponents multiply since the announcement of a strengthening of the sanitary pass and the closing of businesses, bars and restaurants in the evening.
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For the third consecutive evening, violent manifestations against the government of Mark Rutte, which decreed last week of new sanitary measures, took place in several cities in the Netherlands, Sunday, November 21. The authorities have decided to strengthen the use of the sanitary pass and to close at 20 hours the food stores, as well as the bars and restaurants. The Kingdom attends a peak of contamination, with a record of new daily infections recorded on Saturday, with 19,700 cases.
According to the police, 145 people have been apprehended since Friday, November 19th. That day, the town of Rotterdam had been literally devastated, and three bullet-wounded people. Police, five of whom were wounded, had opened fire facing rioters. “We attended a orgy of violence,” commented on the city’s socialist mayor, Ahmed Aboutaleb. The Minister of Justice, Ferdinand Grepperhaus, evoked “criminal behavior”. In Amsterdam, a planned demonstration Saturday had been canceled, but a few thousand people gathered on the central square of the capital.
These events are not the first of its kind, but those who took place at the beginning of the year had not reached such a degree of violence. At the end of January, what the media had qualified, for lack of better, “revolt of boredom”, had erupted for three days in a dozen cities – including in the peaceful “Bible Belt” (“Belt of the Bible “) Dutch, in the center of the country. This region, where a very rigorous Calvinism survives, continues to oppose massively to the vaccine, which it deems it can thwart the divine law.
“People dissatisfied that do not believe in anything”
At the time, the extreme right has divided the opportunity to recover the movement. Geert Wilders, the head of the Party for Freedom (PVV) had claimed the army intervention to watch the rioters. His rival, Thierry Baudet, forum leader for democracy (FVD) pleaded for the Dutch to “find their freedom”.
right extremists were present in the ranks of the protesters in recent days, but the movement is much larger. It brings together victims of restrictions, defenders of freedoms who consider the measures adopted, from the heirs of the powerful libertarian movement of the 1980s and 1990, of the regulatists and also, as analyzed in January the sociologist Jan Willem Duyvendak, ” Unhappy people who do not believe in anything anymore “and call into question the word of scientists.
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