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3 Min Read BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Police used teargas and water cannons on Thursday to disperse thousands of young people gathered in a Brussels park for a party in defiance of Belgium’s COVID-19 lockdown, an event that began as an April Fool’s joke on Facebook. Around 2,000 people showed up towards the end of a warm and sunny day to attend “La Boum” (the party) in the Bois de la Cambre park, local police said, even though the organisers had revealed days earlier that their invitation on social media was a hoax. Local media put the number of people at about 5,000.

HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/BELGIUM-PARTY (UPDATE 1, TV, PIX):UPDATE 1-Police disperse thousands at Belgian April Fool party

Police used teargas and water cannons on Thursday to disperse thousands of young people gathered in a Brussels park for a party in defiance of Belgium's COVID-19 lockdown, an event that began as an April Fool's joke on Facebook.

Belgian park party invite is April Fool, but no joke for police Reuters 1 hr ago BRUSSELS, April 1 (Reuters) - A Facebook announcement for a giant party in a Brussels park during Belgium's COVID-19 lockdown was intended as an April Fool's joke, but has sent police and prosecutors scrambling as nearly 20,000 people have said they plan to attend. The announcement, posted in March, promised a host of DJs, singer and producer Calvin Harris and a one-off reunion of French band Daft Punk in the Bois de la Cambre, Brussels' largest park, on Thursday evening. "La Boum" (the party) would have taken ...

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