At least 101 people, 80 of them minors, were arrested this Friday in Brussels after participating in the protests over the death, on Tuesday, of a young man in Nanterre (France), shot by the police after disrespecting an “operation stop “. .
In addition to the arrests in Brussels, another 30 people were arrested in Liège, in the east of the country. According to official data, the Brussels-Ixelles police made 94 administrative arrests this Friday, after demonstrations in some neighborhoods in the center of the Belgian capital. On the other hand, the police in the northern area of Brussels carried out another seven arrests.
Brussels-Ixelles police did not report any major incidents on Friday night, the Belgian news agency reported, adding that of the 94 arrests made in the Ixelles area, 80 were minors.
According to the local Belgian news agency, despite the absence of serious incidents in Brussels, several young people were detained in custody for being in places where demonstrations were being held in possession of material that, according to the police, “could be used to commit damage.” .
On Thursday night, the police arrested 64 people in Brussels, protesting the death of Nahel, a 17-year-old boy of Arab origin, who was fatally shot by a police officer last Tuesday while trying to flee from a checkpoint. police control in Nanterre, on the outskirts of Paris.
In Liège, some 30 administrative arrests were made following calls on social media for demonstrations to be held in the city center.
According to the Belgian agency, the Liège police carried out identity checks and most of the people arrested were wanted in the context of other investigations. As in Brussels, there were no serious incidents.
The images of the French teenager shot dead by the police, registered by witnesses, provoked strong indignation in France, which degenerated into riots, especially in the popular neighborhoods of large cities and in the metropolitan belt of Paris.
At least 994 people were arrested in France and 79 police officers were injured in the fourth consecutive night of riots over the death of the young man at the hands of the police, this Tuesday, although less intense, according to the French authorities.
Source: TSF
