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Debrecen, Hungary – 28 November 2024
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1. Pan of the Nagyerdei Stadium
2. Wide of police walking around the stadium
3. Wide of a police officer looking at the entrance
4. Various of closed entrance area of the stadium
5. Wide of security staff
6. Wide of police in a nearby road
7. Wide of stadium
8. Wide of fence
9. Wide of police officers
10. Wide of security personnel closing the area
STORYLINE:
Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team returned to Europe on Thursday for the first time since their fans were assaulted in the Netherlands earlier this month in attacks that were condemned as antisemitic by authorities in Amsterdam, Israel and across Europe.
The team is set to face off against Turkey’s Besiktas in a closed-door, Europa League match that was relocated to Hungary.
The contest at the Nagyerdei Stadium in the eastern Hungarian city of Debrecen will be played without fans due to security concerns following the violence in Amsterdam on Nov. 7 that resulted in five people being treated in hospitals and dozens of detentions.
The violence that erupted in Amsterdam came after pro-Palestinian demonstrators were banned by local authorities from gathering outside the stadium where Maccabi was playing Dutch team Ajax.
A large crowd of Israeli fans chanted anti-Arab slogans on their way to the match, video showed.
Afterwards, youths on scooters and on foot crisscrossed the city in search of Israeli fans, punching and kicking them and then fleeing quickly to evade police, according to Amsterdam’s mayor.
The city’s police commander said that those incidents had "an antisemitic character."
Before the assaults, Besiktas had requested its home game against Maccabi, originally scheduled to be played in Istanbul, to be moved to “neutral ground” over security concerns.
The club later said that Hungary was the only country willing to host the match but that Hungarian authorities requested that the match be played behind closed doors.
Hungary has hosted several home games for Israel’s national team for security reasons since the war in Gaza began.
AP video by Bela Szandelszky
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