More arrests after Dutch Covid unrest

Ede (Netherlands): Dutch police have arrested more than 30 people during unrest in The Hague and other towns in the Netherlands that followed an orgy of violence the previous night at a protest against coronavirus restrictions. The violence by groups of youths in The Hague and elsewhere Saturday night wasn’t as serious as Friday night in Rotterdam, where police opened fire on rampaging rioters and arrested 51 people. Police said Sunday that they arrested 19 people in The Hague and used a water cannon to extinguish a fire on a street. Two soccer matches in the country’s top professional league were briefly halted when fans banned from matches under a partial lockdown in force in the Netherlands for a week broke into stadiums in the towns of Alkmaar and Almelo.In The Hague, police said five officers were injured as they tried to break up unrest.