A mass anti-immigration rally in the Netherlands has erupted into violence after riot police moved in to disperse a 1,000-strong march against the opening of a refugee center in the town of Heesch.
Video footage and report are from Russia Today (RT).
The Russia Today report segues unsubtly to an interview with Czech president Milos Zeman, which is about Muslim integration, in an apparent attempt to conflate the unconnected notion of being a refugee with being a Muslim.
Quite what the Czech president has to do with a localised riot in the Netherlands, RT fail to establish, other than to say that “European leaders are now speaking openly about the impossibility of integration.” This statement is not proved by the sound-bite offered from one European leader, who appears to be talking about Islamic integration, rather than refugee and asylum seekers, who may or may not be Muslims.
In This Story: Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country primarily located in Western Europe and partly in the Caribbean, forming the largest constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. In Europe, it consists of 12 provinces that border Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, and the North Sea to the northwest, with maritime borders in the North Sea with those countries and the United Kingdom. In the Caribbean, it consists of three special municipalities: the islands of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba. The country’s official language is Dutch, with West Frisian as a secondary official language in the province of Friesland, and English and Papiamentu as secondary official languages in the Caribbean Netherlands. Dutch Low Saxon and Limburgish are recognised regional languages (spoken in the east and southeast respectively), while Sinte Romani and Yiddish are recognised non-territorial languages.