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Protesters say the storming was the only way to get heard

Kurdish group 'had no choice' but to storm EU parliament

by Peter Teffer, Brussels,

People arriving at the Place du Luxembourg in front of the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday (7 October) morning saw a familar scene from recent days: a group of protesters calling for help for Kurdish victims of Islamic State (IS).

But at around 11am local time the scene became more hectic.

“The protesters stormed the building”, Orhan Murat, the spokesperson for the Federation of Kurdish Associations in Belgium told EUobserver.

He said about 150 Kurdish activists r...

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Protesters say the storming was the only way to get heard

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