Dutch police arrest 130 after shooting protest

Police arrested 130 people, including an unknown number of football supporters, in an Utrecht neighbourhood last night.

The city’s mayor had ordered the “Ondiep” neighbourhood sealed off and mandated a curfew to prevent a second night of disturbances connected to a police shooting of a man.

Annie Brouwer told Dutch television that only residents would be allowed in or out of the ethnically mixed neighbourhood, where police killed a man who they said threatened officers with a knife on Sunday.

Notices to go to the city were posted on football fan websites.

“These people don’t belong in this neighbourhood, and they’re not welcome,” Brouwer said.

Supporters from Ajax, Feyenoord, The Hague, and Utrecht were among those arrested for vandalism, violence or disturbing public order, police said.

Dutch television showed most of the people who ignored the curfew and were arrested were white.