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A demonstration against police violence in the Hague Schilderswijk last night again resulted in riots. The riots were the worst since the death – in all probability by police violence – the Aruban Mitch Henriquez during his arrest last weekend. Shop Windows were smashed, fires were started and there is an amateur theater for the performing arts was severely damaged.
The police said via Twitter that 34 rioters were arrested. The rioters were uiteen- and eventually drifted away, according to news agency ANP sometimes harshly. It is also used police dogs.
It started quietly
The march began at 21.00 as a normal demonstration, says NRC reporter Kim Bos. With banners, printed photographs of the deceased Henriquez, and heated discussions between local residents
There seemed no obvious organization:. Nobody gave a speech and took the lead, sometimes it was ” Police killers “groups.
After it became dark once the atmosphere to hit. There were nitrate bombs and decorative fireworks chipped. A first piece of brick flew towards ME.
A group of young men, perhaps a hundred, most no older than 25, ran screaming across the Hobbemaplein. There, the police responded, and there the young people responded again. They began to throw stones and bottles. At one point everyone was behind another. Youngsters behind police, police behind youngsters. The riot police tried to contain it. People with placards were no longer visible. It looked like a war zone. Helicopters flew over the city. “
Piano upside
The windows and doors of the theater Vaillant, a stage for amateur performing arts, was destroyed. Some of the contents ended up on the street. Within havoc is wreaked. A piano sits upside down on the floor.
On the night of Monday to Tuesday riots also broke out in Schilderswijk. Rioters threw in windows, smashed bus shelters and pelted police and firefighters with stones, fireworks and other objects. The evening and night after it was choppy in Schilderswijk. Police have arrested several dozen people.
Death by oxygen deficiency
Mitch Henriquez, a 42-year-old Aruban visiting family in the Netherlands, visited a festival in South Park when he was arrested . There were films made by showing that keep four officers Henriquez pressed against the ground. First he still balks. Not many agents allow hoist Henriquez in a sitting position, she checked his pulse, tapping his cheeks and lifting him into a police wagon.
The prosecution initially declared that Henriquez “on the way to the police station was unwell” and then was brought by ambulance to the hospital. But this footage of bystanders was that he seemed unconscious after his arrest in the park before he was lifted by officers in the police wagon. The prosecution applied the declaration:
“The man resisted arrest and the police therefore used force against the man to bring him over to the police. What happened next is investigated. “
From the preliminary autopsy revealed the body Henriquez came by lack of oxygen to sustain life. The national department of investigating what exactly happened
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