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Dutch police said Saturday they had arrested nearly 200 people protesting against Black Pete, the sidekick of Dutch Saint Nicholas accused of being a racist stereotype. "We arrested about 190 people who were demonstrating in Rotterdam, where the protests were banned for the day," local police spokeswoman Lillian van Duijvenbode told AFP. Several thousand people including many children had gathered earlier in the day in Maasluis, a small town between Rotterdam and The Hague, to watch the arrival by boat and parade of Saint Nicholas and his companions.

 

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