Tear gas at Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam to counter Dutch protests

Protests in Holland against lockdown measures descended into violence as rioters clashed with police.

In Eindhoven, protesters pelted officers with stones at a banned demonstration against a new 9pm curfew.

They responded with tear gas and water cannon. Some protesters threw fireworks, looted supermarkets and smashed shop windows.

Police in central Amsterdam also used a water cannon to disperse protesters next to the Van Gogh Museum.

More than 100 people have been arrested. It comes after a Covid-19 testing centre was set alight on Saturday evening in the northern village of Urk.

France probably needs to move into a third lockdown, perhaps as early as the February school holidays, because of the circulation of the new variants, the government’s top medical adviser Jean-Francois Delfraissy said.

Samuel L Jackson let his 6.9 million followers on Instagram know that he had been vaccinated against Covid-19 in California. He posted a selfie wearing an Avengers-themed mask and said he was “At The Forum getting that 1st jab!!”

In Mexico president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, 67, tweeted he had tested positive for Covid-19 and was receiving medical treatment but had mild symptoms.

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