AMSTERDAM: Dutch police stated on Thursday (Nov 14) that they’ve opened an inquiry into alleged police brutality throughout and after a banned pro-Palestinian protest in Amsterdam by which 281 demonstrators had been detained.
Social media footage confirmed riot police shouting at protesters and hitting them with batons after they had been launched from a bus on the outskirts of the Dutch capital following Wednesday evening’s protest.
A number of hundred demonstrators, wearing Palestinian scarfs and chanting slogans, gathered on the town’s well-known Dam Sq. regardless of a ban following last week’s attacks on Israeli football fans.
Town did grant an exemption for a protest on Wednesday, however on the situation that it happen on the metropolis’s Westergast terrain, exterior of the centre.
“Movies are circulating on social media displaying members of the Cellular Unit (riot police) performing towards protesters who’ve simply been faraway from a bus,” police stated in an announcement.
“These protesters had been transported to this location after they had been beforehand arrested on Dam Sq. for violating the emergency ordinance,” police stated.
“The precise purpose for the Cellular Unit’s motion on this particular video fragment is being investigated,” police stated, with out specifying which footage they had been referring to.