“People called the police because there was noise nuisance in various places,” says Wouter Bruyns of the Antwerp police. “We have been to 9 places. Together we identified 64 people in those different places. That’s a lot. ”
Bruyns notes that most of them knew very well that they were violating the measures. This is evident from the fact that they often fled from the police. “They were hiding, often on the roof, in the hope that the police wouldn’t look there. But that was of course beyond our colleagues. It was searched until everyone was identified. ”
The police have drawn up an official report at each of the 9 parties. In addition, a number of people were arrested administratively for resisting. Someone was also arrested for having previously been caught at several lockdown parties. Those present risk a prison sentence of 8 days to 3 months and a fine of 200 to 4,000 euros.
A survey by VRT NWS at various large police zones shows that there were relatively few violations of the rules elsewhere last night.
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