DIRECT. all the information on the attacks on Israeli supporters of Maccabi Tel-Aviv in Amsterdam

Invited this Friday on the BFMTV morning show, the President of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France Yonathan Arfi condemned the attacks suffered by Maccabi Tel-Aviv supporters in Amsterdam on the sidelines of a Europa League match.

“A lot of concern and a lot of anger. (…) These are mass lynchings, systematic attacks on Israeli supporters after the match. These events were predictable, obviously there was no enough security,” denounced the head of CRIF. “I'm worried, we have the France-Israel match in a week which will be organized in a week at the Stade de France. We hope not to have similar scenes.”

And the manager clarified: “As a matter of principle, I always refuse to give in to the haters, the anti-Semites, the violent. If we relocated this match, if we canceled it in France, what a symbol it would be! We would have been able to organize the Olympic Games, but unable to organize a France-Israel football match No, I believe that we must hold this match, put the necessary security resources on site, but also in the streets of Paris? What we saw yesterday was that the lynchings did not only take place near the stadium but unfortunately even as far as the hotels of Israeli supporters, sometimes chased down one by one, humiliated in videos, molested. oclectively. This is what happened. We must be aware of it, it is extremely serious that in Europe today there can be these images. […] They are targeted not only in the name of the conflict in Gaza, but also because they are Jewish. It is the crassest anti-Semitism which resurfaces through these images and which refers to other images.”