Coronavirus: Dutch PM Mark Rutte denounces check in time revolts as ‘criminal brutality’

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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has censured end of the week riots against recently forced Covid limitations as “criminal savagery”.

Agitators assaulted police and set vehicles and bicycles ablaze to challenge a time limitation presented on Saturday.

In the southern city of Eindhoven, plundered grocery stores and crushed shop windows.

There were in Amsterdam, and in and towns around the country been confined, police said.

“This has nothing to do with fight, this is we in that capacity,” Mr Rutte told columnists on Monday.

In Eindhoven, golf balls and firecrackers were heaved at police in full mob gear, who at gas to clear the groups. Consuming bicycles blockades. In the eastern city of Enschede, at the windows of an emergency clinic.

“The fire in a screening community in Urk goes past all cutoff points,” Health Minister Hugo de Jonge said.

Territorial security councilors are meeting on Monday.

The Dutch government has quite recently presented its hardest measures since the beginning of the pandemic – including limit which runs from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30. It is the first in the Netherlands since World War Two.
The nation’s bars been closed since October, while schools shut.
A prohibition on departures from the UK, South Africa and South America has been set up because of fears over new variations of the infection.

There have been 962,000 cases and 13,646 Covid-19 in the Johns Hopkins University.

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