Several extreme right figures are in Gouda present at the entry of St. Nicholas rural. They want to hear a pro-Black Piet sound against the anti-Black Peter activists these days are also present. There are activists PVV followers, of the NVU en Identitair Verzet. They also stick their stickers Gouda for example, a text “Stop Islamterreur”. There threatening collisions between the Market for- and opponents of Zwarte Piet. Paul Peters the leader of Identitair Verzet and he was arrested because he wants to take down an anti-Black Peters banner. Parents with children are witnessing here. Police arrested ninety people from both camps. A group with many African-Dutch protesting silently with a banner, is forcibly evicted by police and arrested. Later allows a judge that the arrest of fifteen anti-Zwarte Piet activists was unlawful and constitutes an unlawful infringement of the freedom of expression and freedom of demonstration.

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