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Video - Belgian riot police detain more than 120 protesting the anti-Islam film.(HLN).Google Translate). Police detained around 120 people in the northern Belgian city of Antwerp Saturday after scuffles at a protest against an anti-Islamic film that has sparked a wave of protests, local police said. The protesters shouted anti-US slogans and praised the Prophet Mohammed. Footage aired by broadcaster RTBF also showed them burning the US flag. The demonstration, which was organised by mass text messages, degenerated into clashes with police after officers blocked the protesters from moving to a main thoroughfare.Among the protesters were apparently members of 'Sharia34Belgium'. "We used pepper spray and batons, but no one was injured," the Antwerp police spokesman told the Het Laatste Nieuws daily. On the Drink gathered this afternoon about two hundred young people to protest against the anti-Islam film "Innocence or Muslims. Initially remained in the chanting of slogans, but when a hard core would break through to the Turnhoutsebaan, grabbed the police. A leader of the Islamist group Sharia4Belgium was among those detained, according to RTBF. A concrete figure for the number of arrests is not there yet, but it would certainly be more than 120. The young people are now being systematically transferred to the detention center on the Noorderlaan. "We want that way also avoid later riots would break out. They will one by one be identified and then in the course of the evening with scantily be released," the spokesman said. Yesterday was a text message circulated calling for today at 15 hours to collect the drink in Borgerhout to protest against the anti-Islam film. "We are ready to work with our souls and hearts to fight for our beloved prophet, though the death that comes to meet us. Whoever has love for the Prophet must be present", was the message.Read and see the full story here.
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