Press photographer in The Hague assaulted by woman after taking photos of fat bike accident

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Police arrested the woman on the spot

Press photographer Olav Spa was attacked by a woman on Tuesday evening when he was taking photos of an accident with a fat bike on Binckhorstlaan in The Hague.

When he wanted to report on two women who crashed their fat bikes, one woman was taken to hospital and the other was advised to visit a dentist, the situation escalated when a family member attacked the photographer and punched him several times. his head hit.

I was shouted at by one of the women. She told me to stop taking pictures. […] She stormed over to me and started lashing out. I received blows to my back, neck and the back of my head.

The police arrested the woman on the spot on suspicion of assault and took her to the police station. Check out the bodycam images taken by the photographer here.

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