The Manila Times

Dozens arrested in Brussels protest

- AFP

BRUSSELS: Fifty people were arrested - lice officers were attacked and shops damaged on the margins of a protest over the recent revelation­s of migrant slave markets in Libya, authoritie­s said.

A group of people broke off from the demonstrat­ion against slavery in Libya before putting on masks and turning violent.

The incidents occurred in the busy commercial neighbourh­ood - gian capital’s city center, police spokesman Ilse Van de Keere told Agence France-Presse.

Twitter: “50 people [ were] arrested and [ there are] no injuries to be noted.”

broadcaste­r, those arrested during the violence were aged between 15 and 18.

A police car was also targeted and projectile­s were thrown, Van de Keere said. A large number of was restored by the early evening.

The US network CNN triggered a wave of condemnati­on when it aired footage last week of an apparent auction where black men were presented to North African buyers as potential farmhands and sold.

This is the third time that few weeks.

On November 15, an unauthoris­ed rally organized by a young social media star escalated when the police tried to disperse the crowd.

Four days earlier, there was violence after Morocco’s qualificat­ion for the 2018 football World Cup.

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