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Puskas Arena, Budapest, Hungary – 8 November 2024
1. Mid of Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof arriving
2. Journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dick Schoof, Dutch Prime Minister:
“Well, let’s say that I’m ashamed that this happened in the Netherlands and it’s a terrible antisemitic attack and we will not tolerate and we will prosecute the perpetrators, and I am deeply ashamed that it could happen in the Netherlands in 2024.”
4. Mid of Schoof answering questions
5. Mid of journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dick Schoof, Dutch Prime Minister:
“The message to Israel is that I hope that the Israelis will come to the Netherlands still because we do everything we can to make them feel safe and secure in the Netherlands, and that’s what we acted upon.”
7. Wide of journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Dick Schoof, Dutch Prime Minister:
“But there are always problems around football matches and football matches regarding with an Israeli team also has special attention from the police. But the things that happened this night, this evening, of last night, are just terrible, horrific. And as I said, I’m utterly ashamed that happened in the Netherlands,” School leaves
STORYLINE:
Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof on Friday said he was "deeply ashamed" regarding attacks on Israeli soccer fans as they visited Amsterdam to watch a soccer match on Thursday.
Speaking on the sidelines of a European summit in Budapest, Schoof described the events as "a terrible antisemitic attack."
"We will not tolerate (the attack) and we will prosecute the perpetrators and I am deeply ashamed that it could happen in the Netherlands in 2024," added Schoof.
Young people on scooters attacked Israeli fans in hit-and-run assaults overnight after a soccer game in Amsterdam apparently fueled by calls to target Jewish people spread on social media, Dutch authorities said Friday. Five people were treated in hospitals and dozens were arrested.
Tensions had been mounting in the Dutch capital over Israel’s campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon, even before the Europa League match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv on Thursday night.
Amsterdam authorities banned a planned pro-Palestinian demonstration near the stadium, and video showed a large crowd of Israeli fans chanting anti-Arab slogans en route to the game.
Afterwards, youths on scooters crisscrossed the city in search of Israeli fans, punching and kicking them and then fleeing quickly to evade police, Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema said.
Police had to escort some fans back to hotels, according to authorities.
Ofek Ziv, a Maccabi fan from the Israeli city of Petah Tikva, said someone — he didn’t see who — threw a rock at him as he and a friend left the stadium. He was hit in the head, causing light bleeding. He said a group of Arab men began to chase him, before he and his friend got into a taxi, picking up other fans. They took shelter at a hotel.
Five people were treated in the hospital and released, while some 20 to 30 people suffered light injuries, police said. At least 62 suspects were arrested, with 10 still in custody, Amsterdam’s public prosecutor, René de Beukelaer, told reporters at a news conference Friday.
With condemnation of the violence as antisemitic pouring in from around Europe, the attacks shattered Amsterdam’s long-cherished view of itself as a beacon of tolerance and haven for persecuted religions, including Sephardic Jews from Portugal and Spain.
The violence reverberated intensely in Israel and across Europe.
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