Deniers Mobilize Against Tightening Restrictions

From the Netherlands to Australia, deniers or contrary to the restrictions are increasing their protests as much of the world is hardening protection measures, limitation of movements and social distancing due to spikes in covid incidence. In Rotterdam, at least seven people have been injured in a night of strong riots and clashes with the police in which dozens of people were arrested this Friday in the vicinity of the port of the Dutch city.

Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb has called the protests a “orgy of violence“.” “The police considered it necessary to draw their weapons to defend themselves,” he told reporters. Even the anti-sanitary organization United We Stand Europe has acknowledged that on Friday “all hell broke loose in Rotterdam” and, therefore, has called off the demonstration scheduled for this Saturday in Amsterdam. “Maintaining it did not seem fair to us,” said the group.

The protests have been called against the Dutch Government’s plans to restrict entry to public spaces to those people who have not been vaccinated against the coronavirus. At the same time, several demonstrations are scheduled to run through the center of Austria against the decision of its Executive, much harsher, to decree a new confinement for the entire population and approve mandatory vaccination.

Ultras and neo-Nazis

The police expect the assistance of thousands of people against the decrees of the Austrian government approved on Friday. The match far right FPÖ is responsible for the majority call that begins at noon, although the leader of the training, Herbert Kickl, will not attend due to being in quarantine after having tested positive. Kickl, a former interior minister who has argued that the coronavirus can be treated with an animal dewormer, ibuprofen and vitamin C, has encouraged demonstrations to defend the “Liberty“and prevent Austria from falling into a” dictatorship “.

“Let’s show those in power that truth, humanity and the will to be free are stronger than any repression,” encouraged the ultra leader on his social networks, who asked that the march be peaceful. The FPÖ has been against vaccines and restrictions to prevent infections, its deputies even refused to wear masks in the Austrian Parliament.

The Interior Ministry assumes that among the participants in the demonstrations this Saturday, which will converge in the center of Vienna, there will be right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis, for which it has prepared a large device with around 1,300 agents, according to public radio. ORF.

‘Protest for freedom’

And on the other side of the world, thousands of australian they participated this Saturday in protests in various cities against anticovid measures and the mandatory vaccination for some sectors. The protesters thus responded to an international event called ‘World protest for freedom’, that has been summoned in numerous countries to criticize the restrictions and the vaccine policy.

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‘Vaccinating children is genocide’ or ‘No to mandatory vaccination’ were some of the messages carried by the protesters in the protests in Australia, which were generally peaceful, in cities such as Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.

The Australian authorities, who have managed to vaccinate more than 70% of their population against covid-19, impose the compulsory vaccination in sectors such as education and healthcare, although standards vary from state to state.