Thread: Brussels Police Arrests Demonstrators - updated

And according to witnesses also beats them. Demonstrators wanted to hold a silent vigil for the victims of 9/11 attacks.

Now at least 3 MEPs (MEP - Member of European Parliament) have been arrested. Italian MEP held in police van asserts he was a witness of police brutality (via mobile phone).

In Brussels police is forbidden to eat or smoke during daylight on Ramadan because it offends Muslims.


[quote]Brussels Police Arrests Demonstrators and Politicians
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Tue, 2007-09-11 14:42

While our editor Paul Belien is still entangled in the SIOE-demonstration in Brussels, we bring you a report by Baron Bodissey from Gates of Vienna, who has been monitoring the situation and who has been in contact by telephone with some of the demonstrators - LVB

12:29 CET

I just received a phone call from Aeneas, a British blogger who is in Brussels for the SIOE demonstration. It was hard to hear him during our conversation due to the sirens in the background.

The demonstration is proceeding, and, despite the rumors in advance, the Brussels police are not allowing the demonstrators to protest without hindrance. People are being dragged away by the police and put into buses.

Flyboy then got on the phone and told me that riot police have been deployed, and that dogs and water cannon are being used against the demonstrators. There has been no violence except by the police. I could hear the demonstrators chanting and dogs barking in the background.

Paul Belien of the Brussels Journal was the next person to talk to me. He says that there are maybe 500 demonstrators in Schuman Square, and that many of those are being arrested and carried away. He has seen Danish, Swedish, British, American, and Canadian flags on display.

There is a large contingent of Vlaams Belang (the Flemish separatist party) at the demonstration, and the party’s leaders are among those arrested. Mr. Belien says that the president of the party, Frank Venhecke, was beaten to the ground by the police, arrested, and put into a bus.

It seems that the police are trying to arrest everybody at the demonstration. I will add updates when I hear more.

12:54 CET

According to Flyboy, there are video cameras from local media everywhere, so we should eventually see this in the news.

So far there is nothing about it on Google News.


13:02 CET

This just came up in via Google News, from Expatica:

Dewinter to attend banned protest

Vlaams Belang figureheads Filip Dewinter and Frank Vanhecke plan to take part in the banned demonstration against the “Islamisation of Europeâ€

Pictures of violent arrests in Brussels. Please scroll down and watch the slide-show (It looks like a video). The man kneeling/lying on the street between heavily armed police grims is a deputy of Belgian parliament. So far to our freedoms.

http://www.hbvl.be/nieuws/Binnenland/default.asp?art

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I would've gone and demonstrated too if I was closer! Hopefully these people will wake Europe up to the islamification of their homelands! Their bravery is to be commended!

If only our own US Teamsters had this kind of testicular fortitude.