

A barricade in flames during clashes between fans and the police of shock in the streets of Brussels.| Photo: EFE/EPA/STEPHANIE LECOCQ
Vandals damaged vehicles and street furniture, forcing the police to intervene, using tear gas and water cannons. “There was use of pyrotechnic material, launching of projectiles, use of sticks, fire on the public road, destruction of a traffic light, and a vehicle was surrounded with the occupant”, he explained to the agency ” Belgian” central district police spokeswoman Ilse Van de Keere, adding that a journalist was f The mayor of the Belgian city, Philip Close, condemned the incidents and advised fans not to go to the centre, as he wrote in a message on Twitter. “The police are using all means to maintain public order. I ordered the police to make administrative arrests of the rioters,” he wrote.380
The incidents began midway through the second half of the game, when about 214 youths gathered in the center of the Belgian capital set fire to a bucket and threw rockets and fireworks at it, then damaging vehicles parked there, according to the Belgian public television “RTBF”.