CLASHES, WATER CANNON AS 100,000+ MARCH IN BRUSSELS AGAINST AUSTERITY (PHOTOS) (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Thursday, November 06, 2014, 11:24

Demonstrators confront riot police in central Brussels November 6, 2014.(Reuters / Yves Herman)

Violent clashes broke out in Belgium as more than 100,000 protesters marched in Brussels against the government’s austerity measures. Police deployed water cannon as dockworkers, metalworkers and students took to the streets.

The violence flared up at the end of an otherwise peaceful protest, with tear gas deployed as some radical demonstrators hurled objects at riot police and launched attacks with the barriers against the officials. Some set off colored smoke flares.

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