1.
GV empty streets (3 shots)
0.10

2.
GV AND SV closed shops (3 shots)
0.19

3.
CU National Strike Poster
0.21

4.
SV police patrolling street
0.24

5.
GV PAN demonstrators arrive in coaches (2 shots)
0.43

6.
SV sign on coach
0.45

7.
GV AND TV demonstrators with flags along road (2 shots)
0.56

8.
SV demonstrator in fancy dress drinking bottle of beer
1.02

9.
CU effigy hanged
1.04

10.
SV banner
1.07

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CU effigy of woman
1.09

12.
SV coffin carried along
1.12

13.
GV demonstrators
1.15

14.
SV broken window glass in shop PAN TO police controlling crowd (2 shots)
1.25

15.
SV glass and rubble on pavement outside shop
1.33



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Background: Thousands of shopkeepers and small businessmen arrived in Brussels from all over Belgium on Thursday (18 February) to stage a one-day warning strike against a value-added tax system which was introduced on January 1. On that date, Belgium became the fifth Common Market country to introduce the tax on goods and services.

VISNEWS cameraman Maurice de Witte was on hand in the capital for the demonstration which expressed the dissatisfaction of small businessmen with the new tax system.