More than 150 people arrested during a match in the Netherlands after singing anti-Semitic songs


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Around 150 supporters in the Netherlands were arrested on the sidelines of the Ajax Amsterdam-AZ Alkmaar match. The latter are suspected of having sung anti-Semitic songs in the streets of Amsterdam before the meeting. Slogans hostile to the Jewish community often associated with the history of Ajax in the years 1960-1970.

More than 150 fans were arrested by Dutch police in Amsterdam on Saturday for singing anti-Semitic chants ahead of a match between Ajax and Alkmaar, police said. The facts occurred at a metro station near the Johan Cruijff Arena where Ajax play. “The supporters were asked several times to stop singing” before making the arrests, added the police. They arrested them for public insult.

Reference to the past

Police did not identify the supporters’ club, but Ajax, currently third in the Dutch Eredivisie standings behind Feyenoord and PSV, faced fourth-placed AZ Alkmaar. According to AT5 radio, the arrested supporters were from Alkmaar, which the police did not confirm. The match took place and ended in a 0-0.

Ajax Amsterdam is often associated with the city’s Jewish community, not least because some of its managers and players in the 1960s and 70s were Jewish.



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