Emergency Services Experience a Turbulent New Year's Eve: 'We Got Through the Eye of the Needle'

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New Year's Eve riots: From Arnhem to The Hague, New Year's Eve riots erupted in unprecedented violence in many places. "Young people are seeking confrontation with…

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The head of the Dutch police union, Nine Kooiman, said that New Year's Eve saw an unprecedented number of attacks on emergency services and police. In Antwerp, police arrested over a hundred people – many of them children – for throwing stones at officers. In the Netherlands, two people died in an accident involving fireworks, and three were injured.