Netherlands: Police break up New Year’s Eve party

The police disbanded one today illegal party which was attended by hundreds of people yesterday, who wanted to celebrate the New Year, in an old factory in the central Netherlands, broadcast by Dutch media.

Ten police vans entered the area in Riesweik and hundreds of police were deployed to persuade people to leave, according to the Dutch state television network NOS.

Police made several arrests, although the whole operation unfolded without incident, local media Omroep Gelderland reported.

The celebration started last night, in a shed of an old ceramic factory. Residents of the area said they identified many vehicles with French, German, Spanish and Italian license plates.

“It’s an illegal holiday, so it’s forbidden. In addition, it is not appropriate during a coronary heart attack. The measures apply to everyone! “, Wrote on Twitter Joshan Meyers, mayor of Buren, which owns Ricewick.

Sanitary restrictions are in place in the Netherlands, where a new lockdown was imposed a week before Christmas, in the face of the new Covid-19 wave and the dispersal of the Omicron variant.

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