(VRT) In Ghent, 22 people were detained on Wednesday night after a Kurdish business in the city was vandalised. Half of those held are minors and police found a number of weapons. The incident follows clashes in recent days between people from the Turkish and Kurdish communities.
On Monday, Turkish youths held a parade through the city to denounce the presence of the Kurdish movement PKK, whose flags were seen following a pre-Islamic spring festival last weekend. Riots broke out in Limburg in response, and later in Brussels.
The unrest spread to Ghent on Tuesday night, when a Kurdish café and bakery were attacked. There was material damage but no one was injured. In video of the incidents, youths make the gesture of the Grey Wolves, an ultra-nationalist Turkish movement.
