{"id":103193,"date":"2026-06-09T00:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/103193\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T00:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:55:14","slug":"youth-protests-in-brussels-turn-violent-for-second-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/103193\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth protests in Brussels turn violent for second week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Youth protests in Brussels descended into violence for the second week in a row on Monday, with police using tear gas and a water cannon against demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A dpa reporter at the scene said police intervened after protesters started damaging rubbish bins and e-scooters and throwing stones and firecrackers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The demonstration had been called in response to police violence at rallies last week against planned cuts in the education sector.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police also used water cannon and tear gas during those protests, while officers were seen using batons against demonstrators. The city of Brussels has announced an investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The protests were triggered by sweeping austerity plans from the government of Belgium&#8217;s French Community. The measures include increasing teaching hours for upper secondary school teachers and clearing the way for higher tuition fees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Students were joined at Monday&#8217;s protest by teachers and representatives of civil society organizations, the Belga news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The vast majority of those taking part &#8211; estimated at several thousand people &#8211; demonstrated peacefully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Youth protests in Brussels descended into violence for the second week in a row on Monday, with police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[211,210,52735,34421,3619,52734,52733],"class_list":["post-103193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-city-of-brussels","tag-police-violence","tag-protests","tag-tear-gas","tag-water-cannon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116717428640555506","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}