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Police in Ghent, Belgium, arrested 22 people on Wednesday night amid rising tensions between residents of Turkish and Kurdish origin. The arrests, reported by Belga news agency, came after the windows of a Kurdish bakery were smashed on Wednesday, police sources told dpa. A café was similarly vandalized on Tuesday. A police spokesman told Belga on Thursday that after the bakery was attacked: “We were able to intervene quickly and take 22 ringleaders into administrative custody.” The suspects – half of whom were minors – were found with weapons such as knives and Molotov cocktails, Belga report…

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