Reuters reports:
New Zealand police on Wednesday ended an anti-vaccine mandate protest that had disrupted the capital for the past three weeks, dismantling an encampment outside parliament, towing away vehicles and arresting dozens.
Several fires broke out among tents just metres from the parliament building, sending up billows of smoke before being doused by police, a Reuters witness said, as officers tried to clear the grounds.
“It was an attack on our front-line police, it was an attack on our parliament, it was an attack on our values, and it was wrong,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told a news conference after saying earlier it was time for the protest to end.
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Riot police have clashed with demonstrators outside New Zealand’s parliament, using pepper spray and making dozens of arrests as they move to end a long-running protest against coronavirus restrictionshttps://t.co/nn2Bmj1o0I pic.twitter.com/e6IBu9w4gh
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) March 2, 2022
The protest, modelled on the truckers’ demonstrations in Canada, had taken over the roads and lawn around New Zealand’s Parliament Buildings https://t.co/1XcC5MlGiQ
— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 2, 2022
New Zealand police launched a renewed push to end an anti-vaccine mandate protest that has disrupted the capital for the past three weeks, dismantling an encampment outside parliament and towing away vehicles https://t.co/LosN2mMWUb pic.twitter.com/rAmwZmziwe
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 2, 2022
VIDEO: New Zealand police move in to clear anti-vax protest.
Riot police in New Zealand move in to end the weeks-long occupation by anti-vaccination demonstrators outside parliament, clearing camps and trucks.
Please note that this video contains use of explicit language pic.twitter.com/v191UCeIek
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) March 2, 2022