Belgian police made several arrests during unsanctioned protests by far right groups, muslims and anti-racists in Moelenbeek district, Saturday. Belgian authorities had banned demonstrations amid fears of violent clashes following last week’s protests by far right extremists at the site of remembrance for the 35 victims of Brussels attacks when Belgian police were forced to repel them with water canons. Up to 400 right-wing activists, many of them members of football teams, marched towards Moelenbeek, an area populated by 40 percent Muslims and linked to harbouring the terrorist of both the Paris and Brussels attacks. Shouting anti-muslim and anti-immigrant slogans while holding banners writing ‘This is our country’ they were confronted by many youth of North African origin and far left groups in counter protest. Police intervened to separate the sides with over 200 officers arriving in roost vans and full combat gear and mane several arrests. During the scuffles a car hit a Muslim woman while backing up. A separate spate of arrests occurred at the city centre where a group of ant-fascists gathered to protests against the right wings there.