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After the uproar, there was a lot of criticism in the press of the police action. According to The New Guide of
January 1887, a sack race had been organized the previous Sunday, which the police had turned a blind eye to. Afterwards, the locals decided to organize an eel-pulling contest on the next
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On Sunday 25 July 1886 a game of eel-pulling had started on the
Lindengracht, which had not yet been filled in, when the police intervened. Police officers cut the rope on which the eel was hanging. The spectators then turned on the officers. One officer was pulled into a basement and beaten there.
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On Monday 26 July 1886 riots broke out again. A crowd armed with sticks and rods besieged the police station. The cornered agents had to call in reinforcements and eventually even ask the army to intervene. A terrible fight broke out, streets were broken up and barricades erected. The
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inhabitants pelted the police from their roofs with everything they could lay their hands on. The army fired back with live ammunition. When peace returned the following day, 26 people had been killed and many injured.
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