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URK, The Netherlands: Youth in riots protesting on the first night of the Dutch curfew set a COVID-19 testing facility on fire and launched fireworks at police in a Dutch fishing village.
Police said Sunday they fined more than 3,600 people across the country for violating the curfew that lasted from 9 p.m. local time Saturday to 4.30 a.m. Sunday and arrested 25 people for violating the curfew. or by violence.
A video from the village of Urk, 80 kilometers northeast of Amsterdam, showed young people breaking into the COVID-19 testing facility near the village port before it caught fire on Saturday night.
Police and the municipality issued a statement on Sunday expressing their anger at the riots, “from the firing of fireworks and stones to the destruction of police cars and the burning of the test site as a deep point.”
A police officer takes pictures of a burning COVID-19 testing facility in the Dutch fishing village of Urk on January 24, 2021 (Photo: AP / Photo / Peter Dejong).
“This is not only unacceptable, but also a slap in the face, especially for the local health authority staff who do their best in the testing center to help the people of Urk,” local authorities said, adding that the touch Curfew would be strictly enforced for the rest of the week.
On Sunday, all that was left of the portable building used to administer the coronavirus tests was a burned shell.
Amsterdam police were also preparing for another protest on Sunday, dispatching officers to a square where protesters clashed with police a week ago. The city’s municipality designated the plaza a “risk zone,” a measure that gave the police additional powers to search people.
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