Yesterday evening Defend Netherlands (group of fascists and literal nazi's) tried to attack a barricaded @ACU.nl, a radical left political cultural centre in #Utrecht. They tried to frame this under the guise of commemorating the death of the French fascist Quentin Deranque. Because they communicated with their fellow fascists that they would meet in a car park near the central station, we internally had mobilised to meet near the station as well. The police ordered us that we could go to the Dom Square, but we wanted to go to ACU (to defend it). So eventually, after some minor skirmishes we arrived at the ACU on the Voorstraat.
Because of the Dutch demonstration law, the police facilitated the (~25) fascists to stay in hear and sight of our group (~150) in front of the ACU. It didn't took long before they were throwing stinking smoke bombs and not later after that (could be quicker), they were escorted back to the station, but the fascists tried to use another route to ACU. They didn't succeed with that and most of them where eventually put on the train back to Naziland. Only few fascists were trying to go back to the ACU, but they didn't succeed as well and where even scared when they saw some anti-fascists.
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⚠️ Content warning for video: police violence.
After the fascists where gone, the police escalated the situation anyway by arresting a comrade for making a minor insult towards an officer. Antifascists did not accept this and blocked the police van. The police then resorted to considerable police violence. Apparently their favourite activity, because remarkably enough they usually do this at the end of a demonstration, when everything else has gone well.
Note: The video is blurred, but unfortunately my auto-blur software sees no difference between anti-fascists, fascists, and police. 🤷🏻
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#antifa #fascists #nazis #fascism #QuentinDeranque #police #policeViolence #Utrecht #ACU
