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Thousands of people took to the streets of Brussels on Sunday (16) to protest against the UN Global Compact on Migration, signed last Monday (10). The act was summoned by a group of the far right and marked by clashes with security forces.
The police counted at least 5,500 participants, concentrated near the European institutions, as the headquarters of the European Union. first people, "said some of the posters.Others have called for the resignation of Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel.
After a quiet start, the protesters began throwing projectiles at the Security forces and the facades of some buildings of the European Union, observed a journalist from AFP News.
Police use tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters
At least 90 people The Brussels Public Prosecutor's Office stated that five persons had been charged, three for degrading the European Commission's building and two for "acts of armed rebellion".
The demonstration was supported by young people of the far-right Vlaams Belang and
In another part of Brussels, about a thousand people, according to the police, participated in a counter-demonstration organized by by various migrant organizations
. Migration, signed by more than 150 countries, including Belgium and Brazil, aims to strengthen international cooperation for "safe, orderly and regular migration" and calls, inter alia, for an end to arbitrary detention and detention. Immediate expulsion of irregular migrants
Critics say the pact is a means of encouraging new and uncontrolled migratory flows.
In Belgium, the document provoked a political crisis with the departure of the Flemish nationalists from the N-VA party led by the French liberal Michel
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