Police arrested seven rioters in The Hague on Saturday night after youths set fires in the streets and threw fireworks at officers.
The unrest came a day after police opened fire on protesters in Rotterdam amid what the port city’s mayor called “an orgy of violence” that broke out at a protest against coronavirus restrictions.
Elsewhere in the Netherlands, two soccer matches in the top professional league had to be briefly halted after fans — banned from matches under a partial lockdown in force in the Netherlands for a week — broke into stadiums in the towns of Alkmaar and Almelo. Read more: ‘My body, my choice’: Thousands protest ahead of Austria’s COVID-19 lockdown Earlier Saturday, two protests against COVID-19 measures went off