Amsterdam football violence was down to a “poisonous cocktail

November 12, 2024

„The violence surrounding last week’s football match between Ajax and Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv in Amsterdam was the result of “a poisonous cocktail of anti-Semitism, football hooliganism and anger over the war in Palestine and Israel and other parts of the Middle East,” mayor Femke Halesma has told councillors in a briefing.

The 12-page letter details events leading up to, during and after the match and paints a more nuanced picture of the trouble than earlier statements.“ (…)

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