SHOCKING SCENES CAUGHT ON CAMERA A heavily pregnant woman was seen being thrown to the ground and dragged across the floor during a confrontation with police at an asylum facility. The footage has gone viral, sparking fierce debate over police conduct, migrant detention policies and what led to the dramatic clash. Witnesses, officials and those involved are telling very different stories.

Pregnant woman grabbed by the hair and dragged along the floor by police

The video captures a tense exchange between several police officers and what appears to be a man and a heavily pregnant woman.

At the beginning of the clip, officers stand gathered in a corridor while a woman stands a short distance away with a man.

One officer approaches the woman and speaks to her.

Seconds later, another officer, carrying a baton and with a German Shepherd dog on a lead, walks directly towards the woman.

He then appears to grab her by the arm and pull her forwards before forcefully throwing her to the floor in the middle of the corridor

Moment police pull pregnant woman to floor by hair utrage in the Netherlands after the video showing Dutch police slamming a woman, allegedly pregnant, to the ground at an asylum center in Zeist. The incident sparked a chaotic brawl as officers forcefully tackled and pinned down her partner when he tried to step in.
The footage has gone viral since it emerged (Picture: Social Media)
Moment police pull pregnant woman to floor by hair utrage in the Netherlands after the video showing Dutch police slamming a woman, allegedly pregnant, to the ground at an asylum center in Zeist. The incident sparked a chaotic brawl as officers forcefully tackled and pinned down her partner when he tried to step in.
The officer who was recorded apparently throwing the woman later got into an altercation with a man she was standing near (Picture: Social Media)

A man, understood to know the woman, then rushes forward and tries to punch the officer with the dog.

The officer strikes back before several other officers quickly move in and a melee breaks out.

A later clip appears to show the woman looking dazed as two officers drag her along the floor further down the corridor while people nearby watch on.

At the same time, three other officers can be seen restraining the man on the ground as the confrontation continues around them.

It is understood the incident took place at a centre for asylum seekers in Zeist, a town near Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

Moment police pull pregnant woman to floor by hair utrage in the Netherlands after the video showing Dutch police slamming a woman, allegedly pregnant, to the ground at an asylum center in Zeist. The incident sparked a chaotic brawl as officers forcefully tackled and pinned down her partner when he tried to step in.
Some reports have claimed the incident happened at a centre of asylum seekers in the Netherlands (Picture: Social Media)

Some online reports claim that officers were responding to reports of vandalism and threats involving a knife at the centre.

During their enquiries, they came into contact with a 30-year-old Palestinian man who is reportedly facing deportation proceedings and had been subject to an entry ban.

It is reported that he is the man in the video who tried to punch the officer and that the pregnant woman was his wife.

The woman told local media outlets that the altercation took place after she spoke to police at the detention centre where her husband was being detained.

He was later arrested, according to reports.

 

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