Dutch police detain more than 180 during anti-lockdown violence
Protests and rioting spread in more than 10 cities
26 January 2021 - 21:21
Amsterdam — Dutch police detained more than 180 people in a third night of unrest in cities across the Netherlands, where roaming groups of rioters set fires, threw rocks and looted stores in violence triggered by a night curfew aimed at curbing the coronavirus.
The first curfew since World War 2 followed a warning by the National Institute for Health (RIVM) over a new wave of infections due to the “British variant” of the virus, and was imposed on Saturday despite weeks of declines in new infections...
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