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The Hague/ Violent protests against asylum policies

2025-09-21 08:55:28, Kosova & Bota CNA

The Hague/ Violent protests against asylum policies

Far-right demonstrators in the Netherlands clashed with police and attacked the office of a left-wing liberal party. Protesters threw objects at police and set police vehicles on fire. Police reportedly used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the violent demonstrators.

30 people were arrested. There are injured police officers. Authorities do not rule out the possibility of arresting other people, as they are currently reviewing video footage.

A smaller group of demonstrators marched towards the parliament building complex, which is currently closed for renovation. At the demonstration, where violence broke out, hundreds of demonstrators, mostly dressed in black, demanded a tougher asylum policy. The protest spiraled out of control when about 1,500 demonstrators blocked traffic by marching along the A12 highway that runs through The Hague.

The highway was blocked by police. According to NOS, some of the demonstrators were waving the orange-white-and-blue flag, the so-called prince's flag, which was once used by the Dutch National Socialist Movement (NSB) and is now used as a symbol by right-wing extremists. The acting government and many parties condemned the violence at the protest: "The right to demonstrate is a precious value, but don't harm our police!" said Justice Minister Foort van Oosten from the conservative-liberal Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).

Right-wing populist politician Geert Wilders also condemned the attacks on police officers and demanded that those who used violence be punished "severely." According to the ANP, Wilders stressed that "blocking highways and using violence against the police is absolutely unacceptable. Idiots."

Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV) have long called for the Netherlands to have one of the strictest asylum laws of all time.

The PVV entered government for the first time last year to achieve this goal. But in June the coalition government collapsed over tougher asylum laws. New elections in the Netherlands are scheduled for the end of October./ DW





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