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The Minister of Justice particularly targeted the president of the PTB Raoul Hedebouw: “You are on the side of the criminal thugs. How dare you defend them? “, he said. Vincent Van Quickenborne recalled that this law had as its starting point the excesses that occurred on the sidelines of a demonstration against health measures in January 2022. “It is still the same small group of thugs wearing balaclavas and hammers. (…) These are those who beat up the police, who set fires, who destroy the stores. It’s about these thugs. »
This response did not convince Raoul Hedebouw, the PTB seeing in this law a possibility of prosecuting any demonstrator. “Who is being taken to court? Greenpeace activists, Delhaize workers facing the bailiffs, that’s the truth! » The president of the communists called on the left wing of Vivaldi not to adopt this law. “Why are you following the right? React! »
Thursday morning, the three unions, as a united front, and various civil society organizations took to the streets to protest against this proposed judicial ban on demonstrations. More than 10,000 people according to the unions and 7,000 according to the police were gathered.
The bill was adopted in committee, but has not yet been examined in plenary session.
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