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Riots Break out at The Hague as Rival Eritrean Migrant Factions Clash

Riots between rival factions of Eritrean immigrants broke out in the Dutch city of The Hague on Saturday night, leaving police officers injured and a car set on fire outside a conference center.

Home to war criminals on trial at the International Criminal Court, scenes resembled a battlefield as supporters of Eritrea’s dictator Isaias Afwerki’s leftist government gathered at the Opera Hall Center in the center of The Hague on Saturday evening. appeared in front of.

A group of Eritrean rebels gathered outside the building in protest, but it quickly escalated into open violence, with rebels breaking windows in the hall and setting fires.

Riot police were sent to protect the building from further damage, and a group of pro-government Eritreans inside the conference center were escorted from the building under police escort. Der Telegraaf report.

The exchange of cash between the two groups continued and the violence continued into the night, with several police and fire brigade vehicles set on fire and other privately owned cars set on fire during the altercation. Several police officers and riot police were injured in clashes with Eritrean rioters, who pelted officers with stones.

The president of the Dutch Police Union (NPB), Nain Kooijman, described the violence between the two groups of Eritreans as “catastrophic, too stupid to put into words”, and Ramon Magerink of the ACP police union said: teeth, called While praising the officers’ “courage to come forward under difficult circumstances”, they called it “totally unacceptable”.

Local firefighters were initially hampered in their efforts to extinguish the fire due to mob violence. A spokesperson said: “We initially received reports that a police car was on fire. We had to withdraw as the situation was unsafe. A police van was then also caught on fire at the Hall complex. woke up.

“There we got stuck and were thrown and damaged our vehicle, forcing us to retreat. We then put up fencing around the vehicle windows so we could extinguish the fire.”

This is not the first time violence has broken out between groups of Eritrean migrants in the Netherlands, with riot police responding to a large brawl in the city of Rijswijk in May last year. Similar clashes between Eritreans have been witnessed in Sweden and Germany, and in September, dozens of people were arrested during clashes at an Eritrean cultural festival in the city of Stuttgart.

According to government estimates, there are currently around 27,000 Eritreans living in the Netherlands, the majority of whom are typically young men of military age, who have sought to avoid conscription into the East African country’s army. I often run away from it.

The Mayor of The Hague, Jan van Zanen, said the violence against police officers was “horrifying and unacceptable”, adding: “The public prosecutor’s office has set up a large investigative team to prosecute the perpetrators of these disorders.” . We would like to appeal to everyone who can help us quickly find the perpetrators of this unacceptable and unnecessary violence. ”

Geert Wilders, an anti-mass immigration populist who is negotiating to become the next prime minister of the Netherlands, is Said About the riots: “The Netherlands is really fed up. Why can half the world come here and destroy our country, fight mutual feuds, throw stones at police officers and set cars on fire? Is this allowed? I want to be the prime minister who finally brings the situation under control.”

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