BRUSSELS --
Plans for a serious trucker virus protest close to the European Union headquarters in Brussels fizzled Monday, with police filtering site visitors through the morning rush hour to go away just a few scattered demonstrators on foot as a substitute.
Police narrowed some highways and imposed go-slow site visitors early Monday in and across the Belgian capital to maintain management of what it feared may flip right into a choking protest like these by horn-honking truckers in Canada. Early indications did not present a groundswell of help for the protest however police took intensive precautions.
"We do not really suppose that Brussels has been paralyzed. Anybody who wished to enter Brussels with good intentions was ready to take action -- with some delay, in fact," mentioned federal police spokeswoman An Berger.
As a substitute a number of hundred individuals protesting virus restrictions gathered in a sq. within the Belgian capital.
Many vans had been anticipated from France, the place Paris police fired tear gasoline Saturday towards a handful of demonstrators on the Champs-Elysees Avenue who defied a police order by collaborating in a automobile protest. However a threatened blockade of Paris didn't materialize over the weekend, regardless of days of on-line organizing efforts.
Within the Netherlands, dozens of vans and different automobiles arrived Saturday in The Hague for the same virus-related protest, blocking an entrance to the historic Dutch parliamentary advanced.
Protesters chant and wave flags throughout an illustration concerning COVID-19 restrictions in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022. (AP Photograph/Olivier Matthys)
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