Brussels police fired teargas and used water cannons as anti-Covid restriction protests taper off into violence
The protest followed new measures announced on Friday to curb one of Europe's highest infection rates
The main crowd in Sunday's mostly peaceful march had already dispersed when about a 100 protesters ran into a riot police barricade cordoning off access to the European Commission. "I can't bear discrimination in any form, and now there's the vaccine pass which is discriminatory, sanctions for carers which are discriminatory too, there's mandatory vaccination which is heading our way," one protestor, martial arts teacher Alain Sienaort, said.Banners compared the stigmatisation of the non-vaccinated to the treatment of Jews forced to wear yellow stars in Nazi Germany.
Earlier, a few thousand protesters marched peacefully through the centre of the Belgian capital to the neighbourhood which hosts the headquarters of European Union institutions, where the demonstration reached its endpoint.
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