Wed Nov 24, 2021 – 8:54 am EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Demonstrations are gaining steam in Europe against COVID restrictions that are taking an increasingly tyrannical turn in many countries. At the same time, reports of police violence and hard-handed responses from the Dutch and French governments in particular are pouring oil on the fire, with the opposition to vaccine mandates or quasi mandates slamming the use of undue force against protest rallies, while law enforcement officers and first responders argue they cannot do anything but protect themselves against rioters who are out for destruction and mayhem.
A week of demonstrations and uprisings in the French department of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, which even led president Emmanuel Macron to send out special forces to the island in a bid for stringent law enforcement, has led the French government to back down partially from the vaccine mandate that is being vigorously fought by local health workers.
The Dutch city of Rotterdam saw a major demonstration turn violent with hundreds of youths igniting fireworks and throwing stones at police forces and firefighters, burning police cars and public property.
The police responded by firing live bullets that wounded four protesters,
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