The World - News from March 30, 1986
Members of the ultra-right Centrum Party fought hand-to-hand with 150 protesters in the Dutch city of Kerdichem, and demonstrators later set fire to the hotel the party convened in, said police. Police said they arrested sixty people for fighting. At least two people were seriously injured during the skirmishes and the fire, said police spokesman Nico van Mourik. The Centrum Party claims foreigners working in the Netherlands are harming Dutch society. The party has been accused of racism by left-wing political groups.
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