Dutch authorities confirmed on Saturday that none of the 62 people arrested on Thursday were involved in the actual attack on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam, described as an Islamist “Jew hunt”. .
The public prosecutor's office said all 62 people arrested in the disturbances surrounding Thursday's match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv were detained during the match. So far, 40 people have been fined and released from custody.
Surprisingly, prosecutors have confirmed that Amsterdam police have yet to make any arrests over the horrific post-match scenes in which 25 Israeli fans were attacked, five of whom were hospitalized. De Telegraaf report.
Geert Wilders, leader of the Anti-Mass Immigration Party for Freedom (PVV), said in a post about X: I wrote: “I'm speechless. Amsterdam police have just confirmed that no one has been arrested in the hunt for Muslim Jews in Amsterdam on Thursday night. All the arrests took place before and during the soccer match. and not during pogroms.”
According to police, a taxi driver was involved in a series of hit-and-run incidents against Jews in the city. Some used scooters to quickly escape after the attack.
On Friday, Mayor Femke Halsema said: “Boys on scooters were riding through town looking for supporters, there was a hit-and-run, soccer fans were attacked, then the mob set out again and was there in droves.'' “I ran away from the police who were there,” he said. I understand that this figure is reminiscent of a pogrom and that this happened in Amsterdam is reprehensible.
“Not only were people hurt last night, but the history of our city, our city, was deeply damaged. Jewish culture is threatened, and all of that is part of what has been part of this city for centuries. The Jews of Amsterdam have always enriched our culture, but yesterday we were reminded of Kristallnacht, or the Night of the Broken Glass.”
Many of the attackers are believed to have been “Moroccan-Dutch,” but the suspects have not been detained and have yet to be identified. Police said they were also investigating whether the attack was organized in advance.
Mayor Halsema has refused to resign in the wake of the attack, but added that he believed the Middle East wars had caused a “terrible outburst of anti-Semitism” in the city.
Since the October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel last year, anti-Semitic attacks have increased sharply across Europe. This, coupled with deadly Islamist terrorist attacks, caused European governments to begin rolling back open border policies.
Geert Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party, which won last November's election on an anti-immigration platform and serves as the Dutch government's main power broker, said this week that those involved in the Amsterdam “pogrom” must leave the Netherlands. He said he should be expelled. .
“It is not enough to condemn the hunting of Jews in Amsterdam,” he said. “The perpetrators must be deported. For more than 20 years, I have been warning about the growing hatred against Jews in the Netherlands due to the ongoing mass immigration and Islamization of our country… The perpetrators Please leave the country.”
