TEST SITE TORCHED Covid testing centre torched and fireworks thrown at hospital in Netherlands as anti-lockdown protest sweep Europe

TEST SITE TORCHED Covid testing centre torched and fireworks thrown at hospital in Netherlands as anti-lockdown protest sweep Europe
Tariq Tahir 24 Jan 2021, 22:06Updated: 25 Jan 2021, 0:14

A COVID testing centre has been burned to the ground and fireworks thrown at a hospital in the Netherlands.

The attack comes as lock down protests grip Europe with police pelted with rocks and politicians burned in effigy.

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The testing centre in Urk was set alight

A group outside a hospital in Enschede that reportedly threw fireworks
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen burned in effigy

Video from Urk, 50 miles northeast of Amsterdam, showed youths breaking into the coronavirus testing facility near the village's harbour before it was set ablaze.

The blaze came on the first day of a new 9 pm to 4:30 am curfew - the country's first since World War II.

Local officials and police said the fire was “not only unacceptable, but also a slap in the face, especially for the local health authority staff who do all they can at the test centre to help people from Urk”.

They added: “The curfew will be strictly enforced for the next week.”

Health Minister Hugo de Jonge also condemned the blaze saying: "The fire in a screening centre in Urk goes beyond all limits."