Belgian police uses water canon to disperse meeting of Laurent Louis Antisemitic supporters.

Belgian police uses water canon to disperse meeting of Laurent Louis Antisemitic supporters..(HLN). [GoogleTranslate]

According to the Belgian police, there are 150 protesters, the organization speaks of four hundred. The meeting, which should take place in Room Akdeniz, was organized by the independent MP Laurent Louis. The controversial French comedian Dieudonne would give a performance and there were also anti-Semitic speakers are invited.

Mayor Eric Tomas (PS) forbade in the morning the meeting, because it represented a threat to public order. 

Laurent Louis immediately shouted hundreds of protesters gathered, who do not seem to give way to the police. Louis negotiated with the police, however, that they would not interfere with the decision of the Council of State.

Around 15 pm officers had also once surrounded the demonstrators, but when they pulled themselves back yet. Probably the Congress participants thought then that the organizers had received directly from the State Council. Both Jewish organizations and organizations combating antisemitism opposed the congress taking place.

Some of them had already complained Friday. The Forum of Jewish Organizations and the Central Jewish Consistory of Belgium respond now positively to the banning of "planned hate meeting" and thank paying particular Interior Minister Joëlle Milquet. 

The 'First European Congress of dissent "is organized by a bookstore in Uccle and the party "Debout les Belges' by the independent MP Laurent Louis. Which has already been sued for defamation and disseminating documents in the investigation file of Marc Dutroux. Several participants have been convictions incurred in France, as the publicists Alain Soral, Johan Liver Neat, Kemi Seba or the controversial comedian Dieudonne.