The streets of central Rotterdam were left in ruin after three nights of anti-curfew protests in the Netherlands' second city.

Footage from January 26 shows damaged shops, broken windows and ruined tram stops.

The Dutch government imposed a curfew between 9 pm and 4:30 am to curb the spread of the new COVID-19 variant.

The aftermath of the vioent Anti-curfew and lockdown protest in the center of Rotterdam city in the Netherlands. The fourth day of the strict Coronavirus Covid-19 lockdown measures with a curfew imposed between 21:00 and 04:30 by the Dutch government since January 23, 2021, in order to fight the spread of the pandemic and the new mutation. Hundreds of protesters clashed during the demonstration with the police in a rally against the new rules. The demonstration resulted in riots, looting and damaging shops, broken windows and damages at the tram stops, setting up fires of a vehicles, destroying bicycles, creating fire roadblocks of bikes, damaging advertisement stands, bus stop and stones were thrown towards the police after the removed them from the pavement.