Prison Sentences of up to Two Months for Riots at Asylum Center Protest in Doetinchem

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Four men involved in the riots at Doetinchem town hall late last month have been sentenced to three months in prison. The judge found them guilty of detonating firecrackers. Riots broke out on September 25 after the city council approved the reception of approximately one hundred asylum seekers for the next three years. Officers charged when fireworks and stones were thrown at the riot police. Seven people were arrested. Four of them, aged betwe…

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Four men were sentenced Wednesday to up to three months in prison, one month of which was suspended, for detonating firecrackers in the middle of police officers. They threw the heavy fireworks onto a square in Doetinchem while the city council was discussing the construction of a temporary asylum seekers' center.