Several Ajax Amsterdam fans clashed with police officers in Amsterdam on Sunday. The postponements of matches due to a police strike are said to be the cause of their anger.
Ajax fans angry about match postponements due to a Dutch police strike clashed with police in Amsterdam on Sunday, according to local media and police. The fans grabbed bicycles and barriers and set off smoke bombs as they marched toward the capital’s police headquarters before security forces intervened, media reports said. “The situation is agitated at the Amsterdam police headquarters. Ajax supporters are vandalizing the building and police vehicles,” Amsterdam police explained in a statement on X.
She clarified that “Despite numerous warnings, a group continues to seek confrontation. The mobile force unit is now carrying out charges to disperse them”. Ajax fans are protesting the postponement of three matches due to a police strike against a reform of their pension system, including the match scheduled for Sunday against Utrecht for the fifth day of the Championship. The authorities had already ruled that the “Klassieker” between Ajax and Feyenoord, a high-risk match scheduled for September 1 in Rotterdam, could not be played without a police presence.
The Ajax F-side supporters group has expressed its “completely fed up”regretting that “Ajax matches are constantly the target of this type of police action”. The police, also on strike on Saturday during the large climate demonstration in The Hague, denied deliberately targeting Ajax. The club, 15th with only two matches played (one win and one loss), fears, due to the busy schedule, that the matches will be replayed on dates that do not suit it.
