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Police commander Ade Adelekan said activists were on the move in various places in the city. “One protest in particular drew a large number of protesters and I became increasingly concerned that people in the crowd were not keeping a social distance.” Reason for the police to intervene and disperse the group.
According to him, a small group opposed this and blocked Westminster Bridge for some time. This resulted in skirmishes. According to Adelekan, most of the protests have ended, but the police will at least stay until the night.
Thousands of people were out on Saturday, according to British media, to campaign against the British government’s corona measures. They marched from Hyde Park with banners and signs through the center of the capital.
The activists oppose the duty of masks and regard the corona measures as tyranny. Some question the pandemic itself. The Save our Rights UK organization had called for the demonstration.
Boris Johnson’s government has recently taken measures to divide the risk of spread in England into three alert phases. The most risky areas have more severe restrictions on public life than in the other regions. Especially in the north of England pubs and bars have to close and meetings between different households are prohibited. There is a curfew from 10 pm throughout England and up to six people are allowed to attend meetings.
The number of corona infections in Great Britain is increasing dramatically, with more than 20,000 new cases regularly occurring every day. A record number of 23,012 new infections was reported on Saturday. About 45,000 Britons died of corona. In our country there were less than seven thousand.
Corona protest Malieveld
Hundreds of people also gathered on the Malieveld in The Hague on Saturday to demonstrate against the temporary corona speed law. There was a lot of police present, but it remained mostly quiet. The organization called on the demonstrators to keep their distance from each other. Some people responded to this. Mouth masks were hardly visible.
Senate members were called upon to vote against ‘the most draconian law ever’. Next week, the senate will discuss the corona law that should replace the local emergency ordinances. The law gives the corona measures a legal basis.
Protest Amsterdam dissolved
On Saturday afternoon, the police intervened by order of the Security Region in a protest by Amsterdam Danst Ergens Voor. “The protesters did not adhere to the predetermined restrictions.”
Some of the demonstrations were announced in advance and were subject to restrictions, police said, such as a designated demonstration location and times for demonstrations. “At the demonstration location on the head of Java Island, about thirty demonstrators appeared after the set demonstration time of 5 p.m.” Protesters were then asked to leave the site. This happened without further incidents worth mentioning. “The same goes for a number of small demonstrations spread around the city. These small demonstrations started as one large demonstration of 150 to 200 demonstrators who rode together on bicycles in the vicinity of the Amstelveenseweg, not the pre-designated, static demonstration location. At one point the large group split up into smaller groups and those groups of protesters then spread through the city. ”
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