MELBOURNE, May 10 — Ten people were arrested and a police officer injured today at an anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne, where demonstrators claimed coronavirus was a government-engineered conspiracy designed to control the population. About 150 protesters rallied outside Victoria's state...
Fanos Panayides, a speaker at an anti-lockdown rally, is arrested on the steps of Victoria’s state parliament in Melbourne May 10, 2020 along with nine other protesters. — AFP pic
Most Australian states and territories have begun easing restrictions, but Victoria has delayed relaxing its measures amid an outbreak at a Melbourne slaughterhouse that caused a spike in new cases. “If this thing was half as deadly as they said it was, with half the population out there still working — even with the lockdown orders — this thing would’ve spread like wildfire through Australia. There’d be no stopping it,” he told AFP.
“Three of the offenders will also be charged with assaulting a police officer, and another offender will be charged with discharging a missile after allegedly throwing a bottle at police,” she said.
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