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Unrest sparked by teen’s killing spreads to Brussels, 64 arrested

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Violent unrest triggered by the police shooting of a 17-year-old during a traffic stop has roiled France for 3 nights.

Nationwide riots triggered by French police’s fatal shooting of a 17-year-old spread to Belgium on Thursday, unleashing chaos that resulted in 64 arrests, City of Brussels police revealed on Friday.

The arrested included 47 minors and 16 adults who have been administratively detained, police said in a statement on Friday. Another minor, who was reportedly seen beating up a police officer, was arrested and questioned but released on Friday.

Hordes of young people gathered in Brussels on Thursday night, using social media meetups to evade the authorities’ grasp and reassembling at the next location when police got too close. As the rioters settled on the Anneessens neighborhood and nearby Midi Station as the targets of their rage, the Anneessens metro station was closed for the night and buses through the neighborhood stopped or rerouted.

Video posted to social media shows rioters setting cars and even buildings on fire and strewing trash through the streets as rudimentary barricades. Local police told the Brussels Times 10 people were arrested for throwing paving stones at cops.

Tuesday’s point-blank shooting of Franco-Algerian teenager Nahel M. during a suburban traffic stop in Nanterre has ignited three nights of riots across France. Some 667 people were arrested in France on Thursday night as police forces quadrupled their numbers in the streets, deploying 40,000 officers including anti-terrorist and tactical units.

The unrest reportedly began as peaceful protests before turning violent at the hands of teens armed with fireworks, Molotov cocktails and other improvised weapons. While the police officer who shot the 17-year-old has been charged with homicide, this announcement did not make a dent in the violence.

Many parts of France have already been in the grip of protest for months as residents denounced Macron’s pension reforms. France’s major unions have vowed not to back down until Macron capitulates.

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  1. Notice these reports are bypassing the truth behind what has been brewing for some years. A full Jihad it seems.

  2. a week ago at a center fro asylum seeker in the netherland:.
    Boiling oil was thrown at two employees. If they live, they will be maimed for life.
    Furter in this same area, asylumseekers are peeing and shitting on the street, people’ garden and everywhere.
    Showing their genitals to young school girls.
    Masturbating in front of women
    Harrassing women on the street
    Breaking cars open and stealing
    Breaking in ( locked) homes and threatening residents).
    The name of the village is TER APEL.
    Many video on the net. Questions in parliament also on youtube
    Unsufficient police protection so that there is now a ” burger wacht” to protect the dutch families. Must be living hell…

    Streams of immigrants are still coming to the netherlands, imposed by bruxelles.
    In the little village where i live, moslima s appeared now all covered from head to toes in black. Sinister.
    And i will add that i live near the sea where a lot of tourists in the summer walks half naked in the streets……

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