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After the wildfires — lessons on being prepared | SaltWire #wildfire #novascotia #thinkingoutoudBRUSSELS - Brussels University will file a police complaint against students involved in a violent protest against Israel's war in Gaza, including an assault on the Jewish students union leader, rector Annemie Schaus said on Belgian radio on Wednesday.
"A complaint will be filed because there were acts of violence, and in particular against the president . And I cannot tolerate that," she told RTBF radio. The complaint will seek to hold the perpetrators accountable for their actions, Schaus added.She said calm returned to the ULB campus on Tuesday after security services intervened to stop what witnesses told local media was an assault on the Jewish students union chief, with a few protesters shouting antisemitic slurs.
In the neighbouring Netherlands, pro-Palestinian protesters were occupying a University of Amsterdam site on Wednesday, a day after police clashed with protesters in the Dutch capital and broke up an earlier encampment at the university. There have been protests and sit-ins by pro-Palestinian university students in a number of Western countries recently, with the worst disturbances at some U.S. universities.It has been our privilege to have the trust and support of our East Coast communities for the last 200 years. Our SaltWire team is always watching out for the place we call home.
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