FIFTH VIOLENT CLASH THIS YEAR

“AMSTERDAM, Netherlan-
ds (UPI) - Hundreds of
young rioters, urged on by a
pirate radio station, fought
police into the early hours
Tuesday in the fifth violent
clash this year between
authorities and squatters
protesting Amsterdam's
critical housing shortage.
The rioters looted four

t

‘department stores, built
barricades across narrow
canal streets, set several

fires, pushed at least one car
into the water and battled
police with clubs and paving
stones for eight hours.

Eight policemen and at
least six civilians were in-
jured in the clashes that
E pitted 250 special mobile
f officers armed with clubs
and tear gas against about
400 helmeted = youths.

arrested in the fighting.
, The fighting began after

Squatters again seized a
house they had occupied
until July 3, when police
evicted them twice in one
day. The building had since
been legally occupied by an
English family, who were
themselves ejected by the
squatters Sunday.

On Monday evening, 30
plainclothes police evicted
the squatters from the house
in 15 minutes and arrested
four people, but just
managed to repel a counter-
attack by squatters with
crowbars and axe handles.

The news of the police
action spread and crowds
began to gather with. youths
taunting and stoning the

police.

The illegal squatters’ radio
station, Radio Free Keyser,
called for support from
sympathizers, but warned
that no one should go to the
scene without helmets,
protective clothes and a
weapon of some sort.

The radio station also
warmed that plainclothes
police were moving about in
the crowd arresting stone-
throwers and offered advice
on resisting or evading
arrest. :

Four department stores
and a number of small shops
around the historic Dam
Square Palace in the heart of
Amsterdam’s old city were
looted by rioters who

smashed display windows.
were

Fires started on

sidewalks, at a renovation

site and in wooden
municipal site-office
wagons.

For eight hours the

fighting spilled through the
narrow streets near Dam
Square before the rioters
dispersed at about 2 a.m.

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