The police intervention in Brussels is at least 300 arrests,
the scene of two demonstrations against the restrictions for Covid.
Local media reports.
Among the arrested also several ultras.
There was an impressive array of police forces at the Central Station, where several demonstrators were identified and arrested as soon as they got off the trains and at Mont des Arts.
Hundreds of agents lined up in riot gear.
Some demonstrators chanted slogans such as "we want to regain freedom".
About 5,000 people, including neo-Nazis, took to the streets in Vienna to protest against anti-Covid restrictions
, defying the prohibition of the Austrian authorities. Protesters took up the appeal of the far-right party FPOE, which called the closures "scandalous". Police made several stops because the crowd refused to disperse, instead attempting to head towards parliament and blocking traffic. In recent days, former Interior Minister Herbert Kickl, a member of the FPOE, had made an appeal to take to the streets this Sunday against the curfew and the third lockdown decided by the popular-green government of Sebastian Kurz. But the demonstration was banned due to the "damage to public order" it would probably have caused. The FPOE presented a second request for authorization to the march to "defend democracy, freedom and fundamental rights", but once again the police rejected it, speaking of the risks of an "increased transmissibility of the new variants" of the virus. In Austria, the epidemic is still worrying. Despite the introduction of a new confinement and curfew, 1,190 new infections have been recorded today (out of 8.9 million inhabitants). According to a survey published by the weekly Profil, 64% of Austrians are calling for the closure of ski resorts. Schools, gyms, hotels, restaurants, non-essential shops and cultural venues are closed. The Social Democratic opposition voted in favor of the reopening of schools on February 8.