“The police took action and dispersed the crowd, detaining 26 people who were taken to the main police station,” Saulius Gags, head of the Vilnius district’s main police station, told Lithuanian public radio.
According to the police, the detainees deliberately violated public order and attacked the police.
“They all used illegal methods, damaged police vehicles, caused physical pain to police officers, and stoned the ambulance,” Gags said.
The police completed the dispersal of the protesters at two o’clock in the night, when police officers with shields slowly moved forward and used tear gas.
It has already been reported that a protest at the Lithuanian Seimas against the government’s plans to impose restrictions on people who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 or tested in clashes on Tuesday night – police tear gas and used force against some insurgents, while some protesters threw police at police. with water bottles and stones.
Lithuanian Police Commissioner-General Renat Požel explained on Tuesday night that the protest could be divided into two parts – it had been allowed until 5 pm, but some people had not dispersed after that and started working actively to block people and cars, so it was decided to start police operation.
As the Minister of the Interior Agne Bilotaite wrote on the social network Facebook, what is happening violates any limits allowed for peaceful civil action.
Several thousand people gathered near the Seimas building in Vilnius on Tuesday to protest the government’s plans to impose strict restrictions on people who have not been vaccinated or tested for Covid-19, but in the evening several hundred people blocked all exits and gates to the inner courtyard. cars, dispelled insults to both politicians and journalists, and some of them were quite aggressive.
The Lithuanian government plans to impose strict restrictions on the unvaccinated and the untested from mid-September, but the Seimas addressed very different issues related to the illegal migration crisis in an emergency session on Tuesday.
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