In recent months, the court has convicted more than seventy people who attended the prohibited demonstrations on the Museumplein in Amsterdam. Most of them were on trial for open violence and ignoring a police order, the Amsterdam Public Prosecution Service (OM) announced on Tuesday.
In recent months, people gathered on the square in question almost every week to demonstrate against the corona policy. The demonstrations are usually prohibited because the demonstrators usually do not keep enough distance from each other. Ending the illegal demonstrations often led to arrests and riots.
More than eighty people who were arrested during the demonstrations have been brought to court by the Public Prosecution Service. Four of them were acquitted.
The highest punishment was imposed on a 36-year-old man from Purmerend, who on January 17, among other things, attacked a police horse with a blackjack: he was sentenced to six months in prison, three of which were suspended. The same punishment was imposed on a 26-year-old Amsterdammer for committing various criminal offenses during a demonstration on January 24.
For example, other convicts were banned from the area, varying from just the Museumplein to the entire municipality of Amsterdam. Thirty people have to pay a fine to a damage fund that has yet to be set up.
A number of hearings are planned for the coming month, according to the OM. The handling of some cases was postponed because additional research still needs to be done.
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