- Title: BELGIUM: PEOPLE DEMONSTRATE OVER THE POLICE SHOOTING OF A MOROCCAN DRUG DEALER
- Date: 9th November 1997
- Summary: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (NOVEMBER 9, 1997) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV/SLV PROTESTERS MARCHING WITH POSTERS OF DEAD DRUG DEALER/ PROTESTERS MARCHING WITH BANNERS, CHANTING (3 SHOTS) 0.13 2. SLV POLICE IN STREET 0.21 3. LV POLICE CORDON ACROSS STREET, PROTESTERS THROWING ROCKS 0.27 4. LV POLICE CHARGE TOWARDS PROTESTERS, WATER CANNON BEING MOVED TOWARDS PROTESTERS 0.36 5. SLV YOUTHS THROW ROCKS FROM BEHIND PARKED VEHICLES 0.44 6. SLV POLICE PAN TO CROWD 0.50 7. MCU/SV MAN PRAYING, GROUP OF PROTESTERS LISTENING (3 SHOTS) 1.00 8. SLV PROTESTERS MARCHING, CHANTING 1.10 9. LV/SV POLICE CORDON ACROSS STREET/ ROCKS HITTING POLICE RIOT SHIELDS (2 SHOTS) 1.18 10.LV COLUMN OF POLICE VEHICLES 1.21 11.SV POLICE ARRESTING PROTESTERS (3 SHOTS) 1.40 12.CU POLICE 1.47 13.SLV POLICE IN STREET 1.50 Initials P3 S3 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
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- Country: Belgium
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- Story Text: Police in the Belgian capital Brussels said they had arrested between 30 and 40 protestors on Sunday and anticipated further unrest after hundreds of people demonstrated over the police shooting of a Moroccan drug dealer.
Around 1,500 people, mainly young immigrants outraged by the fatal shooting on Friday (November 7), joined a tense demonstration on Sunday (November 9).
Stones were thrown at police and photographers jostled before the demonstrators sat down to sing an Arabic prayer, a Reuters photographer said. A car was also turned over. A gendarmerie spokeswoman said no-one was injured during the demonstration.
At the head of the demonstration were six immigrant women in their late teens, followed by hundreds of masked young men shouting slogans of hatred against the police while the family of the dead dealer wept.
The arrests took place as the demonstration started to disperse and a group of protestors tried to enter the heart of central Brussels.
Hard core groups were expected to gather later in the poor neighbourhood near Brussels central station where the shooting took place on Friday.
Drug dealer Said Charki died in hospital after being pumped with 15 bullets on Friday. He had 50 grams of heroin on him, the Brussels public prosecutor's office said.
Police say he rammed them with his car when they tried to arrest him, but young immigrants interviewed on Belgian television said he had been giving himself up quietly when he was shot.
In two tense nights since the shooting youths have smashed shop windows and damaged bus stops in the Belgian capital.
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