Police Break up Brussels Anti-Lockdown Party

Police Break up Brussels Anti-Lockdown Party
A group of police run down the street in the Bois de la Cambre park during a party called "La Boum 2" in Brussels, Saturday, May 1, 2021. Olivier Matthys/AP Photo
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BRUSSELS—Police fired water cannon and tear gas in a Brussels park on Saturday to break up an anti-lockdown party of several hundred people designed to defy coronavirus social distancing rules.

The crowd of mostly young people responded to a post on Facebook announcing the unauthorised party. It took place a month after police cleared 2,000 people who gathered in the same Bois de la Cambre park for la Boum (the party), an event that had begun as an April Fool’s joke.