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40 football hooligans arrested in AmsterdamThursday 13 August 2009 Around 40 football supporters, mostly Dutch, were arrested during widespread disturbances in Amsterdam on Wednesday evening in connection with the friendly between the Netherlands and England. The game ended in a 2-2 draw. A police spokesman speaking on BNR radio on Thursday morning confirmed that about 40 trouble-makers had been detained for public disorder offences. Some nine were still in custody on Thursday morning. According to press reports, a group of between 250 and 300 Dutch supporters, mainly fans of the Amsterdam club Ajax and Twente FC, were spoiling for a confrontation with English fans in the area between the red light district and Dam square. Riot police using horses and dogs charged the crowd and encircled the hooligans who were searched, filmed and had their personal details noted before they were allowed to leave. Later in the evening the police rounded up about a hundred Ajax fans who had been causing trouble throughout the evening and bussed them out of the city. The Amsterdam authorities had been expecting trouble around the football match and had made sure there was a massive police presence in the city. Police were also given extra powers to tackle violent fans. © DutchNews.nl Get the DutchNews.nl newsletter in your mailbox: Click here to subscribe
How ironic that the mayor of Amsterdam recently suggested that English footballs fans were the problem! People in glass houses etc etc.... By tommyrot | August 13, 2009 2:29 PM And how about Wilder's asking for calculations about what the costs of football are to Dutch society? Me thinks far more is spent on policing than is ever returned to the average tax payer. By Quest | August 13, 2009 5:07 PM How is this ironic. Every country has its hooligans but there is no doubt England has lead the way with brutality and mobility. By Mark | August 13, 2009 6:11 PM @Mark, it's ironic because only last month Mayor Cohen tried to exclude English team Sunderland from the Amsterdam Tournament on the ill-informed fear that there would be violence between Sunderland fans and fans of another English team, Newcastle, who were playing elsewhere in Holland the same weekend. Also playing in the Amsterdam Tournament was Ajax. Ajax's fans were prime instigators in the violence on Wednesday night, as this report makes clear. If Major Cohen was at all clued up about football violence, he would have done well to ban his city's own team from the Amsterdam Tournament, not Sunderland! By tommyrot | August 14, 2009 1:42 PM Maybe they were mad at the price of beer at the stadium. By Bobke | August 14, 2009 4:10 PM Place your comments: |
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And to think that the mayor of Amsterdam had the gall to suggest recently that English football fans were a problem with hooliganism! People in glass houses etc etc....
By tommyrot | August 13, 2009 2:28 PM