Brussels anti-austerity riots barricades

by Jolyon: Belgium

Brussels, not France, is where this is happening. Electric scooters and street barriers are being stacked into barricades, and the people who built them appear ready to set the pile alight. Behind the unrest sit anti-austerity demonstrations provoked by budget cuts from the Belgian government, with masked groups trading blows with police while bigger marches carry on around them. Daniyal's write-up places it in a wider trend: Western Europe keeps producing these confrontations, and they are starting to look routine.