A group of suspected football hooligans from Utrecht have made a formal complaint about the way police have placed their photographs on a ‘wanted’ website and have called on the Dutch privacy watchdog to investigate, news agency ANP said on Thursday.

Police and public prosecutors decided to put the photographs online following crowd trouble at the FC Utrecht-FC Twente match in December.
But the men’s lawyer Ruth Jager says the police have used photographs of people who had nothing to do with the trouble.
‘If these people report to the police they are arrested and locked up’, Jager said. ‘They are being presented as suspects who misbehaved but there is very little evidence of this… These are good lads who are either at school or have a job. Most of them have never been in contact with the police or justice ministry officials.’
Even though the youths are quickly released by police, many people now consider them to be hooligans and the photographs will continue to haunt them, she said.