Rode Lijn march draws over 200,000, organisers say; police report four arrests
More than 200,000 people joined the fourth Rode Lijn (Red Line) march in Amsterdam on Sunday, organisers say. Police called it calm and controlled and arrested four people.
More than 200,000 people joined the fourth Rode Lijn (Red Line) march in Amsterdam on Sunday 8 November, according to the organisers. The march started and ended at the Museumplein and went around the Vondelpark.
The thirteen organising groups, including Amnesty International, Oxfam Novib and Save the Children, call on the Dutch government to put maximum political, economic and diplomatic pressure on Israel to end the occupation of the Palestinian territories. The police did not give their own count.
Four arrests
The police said the march went calmly and in a controlled way. Four people were arrested: a masked man who could not show his ID, two people for stealing a flag and for obstructing and threatening an officer, and a man who stood on a bus shelter and would not come down.
A fight on video
A video shared on social media shows a man wearing a shirt reading ‘Zionist’ among the marchers, before the confrontation turns physical and police officers step in. It is not clear from the video how it started, and the police have not said whether the incident led to any of the arrests.
