Five new arrests in Amsterdam over violence against Israeli fans
Five new arrests have been made over the violence surrounding a soccer game last week involving Israeli fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv, Dutch police said Monday.
Five new arrests have been made over the violence surrounding a soccer game last week involving an Israeli team, Dutch police said Monday.
The five men are "suspected of public acts of violence against persons Thursday night," police in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, said Monday. The arrests were made over the weekend as part of the "large-scale investigation on the violence committed before and after" the game between Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv and local team Ajax, police said.
Authorities in Israel and the Netherlands condemned the violence targeted antisemitic attacks, in which authorities said small groups on foot and scooters committed hit-and-run assaults on Israeli fans.
Dutch police have also said Maccabi fans attacked a taxi and burned a Palestinian flag before the game, while a video geolocated by NBC News showed Israeli fans in Amsterdam singing “Death to the Arabs” and “Let the IDF win. We will f--- the Arabs." Another video verified by NBC News showed a brawl break out outside Amsterdam Central Station after the game in what the photographer described as an attack by Israeli fans on local residents.
In their statement Monday, police said two of those arrested "committed these acts before the match was played." The suspects are men ages 18 to 37, all of them Dutch residents, police said. Four remain under interrogation, while one has been freed but remains a suspect.
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