An <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017–2019_Romanian_protests#August_2018" id="mwAZ0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2017–2019 Romanian protests">anti-government rally turns into a riot</a> when members of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Gendarmerie" id="mwAZ4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Romanian Gendarmerie">Romanian Gendarmerie</a> attack the 100,000 people protesting in front of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Palace" id="mwAZ8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Victoria Palace">Victoria Palace</a>, leading to 452 recorded injuries. The authorities alleged that the crowd was infiltrated by hooligans who began attacking law enforcement agents.<sup about="#mwt95" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"}}' id="cite_ref-18" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_10#cite_note-18" id="mwAaA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 18;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAaE">[18]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"><cite about="#mwt92" class="citation news cs1" id="mwCCU"><a class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45156598" id="mwCCY" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Romania protests: Thousands hold fresh rallies after clashes"</a>. <i id="mwCCc">BBC News</i>. 11 August 2018.</cite><span about="#mwt92" class="Z3988" id="mwCCg" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=BBC+News&amp;rft.atitle=Romania+protests%3A+Thousands+hold+fresh+rallies+after+clashes&amp;rft.date=2018-08-11&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-europe-45156598&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+10"></span></span>