The party has gone wrong this Saturday in the city of Gouda, the Netherlands where, as every year, tens of thousands of people gathered to welcome Saint Nicolas came to bring gifts to children.
But this year, protesters were also there to protest against the appearance of "Black Peter", the companion of Saint-Nicolas, which many denounced as an expression of a legacy of the colonial past racist archaism.
"I am against the fact that the faces are black" and said a young woman. The "descendants of slaves and victims of the Netherlands" do not want to see Saint Nicolas accompanied characters "like slaves" explained another protester.
Facing them, a young woman defending a point of view diametrically opposed and felt it was "traditions" and that it should, she says, to meet them.
Review of the day: Children 90 and a bit perplexed arrests in the ranks of supporters as opponents of folk character
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