In riots after a Black Lives Matter demonstration against police violence and racism, 36 officers were injured on Saturday. Nine of them had to be treated in hospital. About ten people have been arrested, the Liège police reported on Sunday.
According to Belgian media, about two hundred “hotheads” caused “serious riots” on Saturday afternoon and rocked the center of Liège. The rioters looted a McDonald’s restaurant and are said to have destroyed shops as well. A police station and police vehicles were pelted.
Young people attacked an agent, after which the situation escalated. The agent had to be taken to hospital by ambulance.
The demonstration had been announced in response to an incident involving a Congolese who had opposed the police in a central square in the city on Monday. As a precaution, the authorities had already held additional security forces ready on Saturday. Shopkeepers were asked to keep the doors closed.
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