Dutch police announced Monday that they had broken up a “huge” brawl involving “300 people” at a polling station in Amsterdam during Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections, AFP and News.ro reported.

A similar fight took place a week ago in Marseille between supporters and opponents of the current president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, around the polling station.

The scuffle happened on Sunday night at the RAI conference center in Amsterdam, where Turkish-Dutch voters can cast their ballots in Turkey’s May 14 election, Dutch police and media said.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, 69, faced the most uncertain election since he came to power and faced a united opposition for the first time in 20 years in the crisis-ridden country.

According to Amsterdam police, around 21:00 local time (22:00 Romanian time) on Sunday, “the organization responsible for securing the elections informed the police that the situation was getting out of control.”

“Panic and chaos” at the polling station in Amsterdam

When agents arrived, they “observed a chaotic situation inside the RAI and a large-scale fight involving 300 people,” the law enforcement agency said in a statement. “At least two people were injured,” they said.

On Monday, the Dutch press released footage showing large numbers of police officers, some in uniform or with dogs, separating the different sides.

The fight, which broke out shortly before the closing of the polling station, was triggered by a quarrel between representatives of opposing parties, according to the Dutch public broadcaster NOS.

“There were screams, there was panic and chaos,” said a witness quoted by NOS.

According to police and local media, calm returned a few hours later. The authorities did not identify the parties to the conflict.

The Turkish-Dutch community in the Netherlands numbers approximately 400,000 people, most of whom are descendants of workers who emigrated to Europe in the 1960s and 1970s.