UNESCO has added the Rotterdam Summer Carnival to its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. According to the UN organization, this multicultural celebration unites Netherlands residents from different backgrounds and reflects the diversity of the country. It also added the technique of grassland irrigation, in which water from a river or stream is diverted with channels through a meadow for irrigation, to its intangible heritage list.
The coalition parties Leefbaar Rotterdam and VVD are not satisfied with the course of the Rotterdam Summer Carnival on Saturday. There were two shootings at the well-attended event. In the second violent incident, three people were injured.
The police arrested a total of 28 people over the weekend at the Summer Carnival in Rotterdam and the surrounding area. On Friday, one person was arrested for assault, and another 27 people were arrested on Saturday. Most of the people were arrested for public drunkenness and missing identification documents, the police reported.