Thousands of people participated today, Sunday, in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, in a “social and anti-fascist march” against the rise of the far right in Europe, according to what the police announced.
Despite the rain, the demonstrators marched through the streets of the Belgian capital in response to an invitation from the “Belgian Anti-Fascist Coordination,” an alliance that includes about twenty organizations, arriving at Luxembourg Square in front of the headquarters of the European Parliament.
During this demonstration, the facade of a building housing the headquarters of the far-right Flemish Independence Party, Vlaams Belang, was vandalized. According to the Belgian News Agency, anti-party slogans were written at the entrance to the building and smoke bombs were thrown at the facade and waste containers.
The European elections, which were held between June 6 and 9, witnessed the rise of the far right, especially in France and Germany.
In Belgium, the legislative elections on the ninth of this month led to the victory of the right and the center-right.
In the Belgian region of Flanders, the Vlaams Belang party made gains without succeeding in ousting the conservatives in the New Flemish Alliance, which has dominated the political scene in this Dutch-speaking region for ten years.
The far right remains completely marginalized in Wallonia, the French-speaking region in southern Belgium, where the media refuse to conduct any direct interviews with its representatives.
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