Dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested this Sunday, November 10 in Amsterdam. They took to the streets despite the ban on demonstrations in force all weekend, after the violence on November 7 against Israeli football supporters, on the sidelines of a match between Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel-Aviv .
On Dam Square in central Amsterdam, hundreds of demonstrators gathered with Palestinian flags, explains Laxmi Lotaregional correspondent for RFI. They chanted slogans in favor of a ceasefire at Gazathe Palestinian enclave bombed by Israel since the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023.
Among them was the activist Frank van der Linde, who had tried in the morning to have the demonstration authorized. But Dutch justice maintained the ban, explaining that the risk of further violence was still possible, three days after the violence on the sidelines of a football match Europa League between Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel-Aviv, in the capital of The Netherlands.
On Saturday, Caspar Veldkamp, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, assured that a “ in-depth investigation will be carried out in the Netherlands “. Femke Halsema, mayor of Amsterdam, lamented “ an explosion of anti-Semitism » that she hopes « never see again ».
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