Celebrations in Brussels to mark Morocco’s return to soccer’s World Cup finals for the first time in two decades turned violent on Saturday night, when crowds clashed with police after setting cars on fire.

A video showed police trucks firing water cannons at crowds gathered in front of the city’s stock exchange and also using a hand-held spray against fans.

According to Brussels police, some 1,500 people had come to celebrate Morocco’s 2-0 win over Ivory Coast, but that around 300 started to behave violently and attacked police officers and firemen called to put out burning cars and dust bins.

View from O’Reillys upstairs smoking area, where after about 20-30 mins of fans celebrating, the riot police came in. Morocco fans had gathered to celebrate their country qualififying in the World Cup. It was mostly peaceful, bar some bottles thrown and firecrackers going off. But they wouldn’t move on when the police tried to clear them after a while and so the riot squad came with the water canons and the spray. Everyone watching where we were, could taste and feel the affects of the spray where we were too it was horrible! This video was taken at exactly 21:25 on November 11th 2017.