57 people were arrested after the violence between football supporters who broke out following a match in the Dutch capital. The two leaders described these violence as “anti -Semites”.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has chartered two planes in Amsterdam to rescue Israeli citizens after what he qualified, with Dutch, anti -Semitic “officials following a football match.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said ten people had been injured and that two were missing, advising its nationals to stay in their hotel rooms.
The supporters were in Amsterdam to attend a match between the Israeli Maccabi team Tel Aviv and the Dutch Ajax team.
Supporters were reportedly attacked in various places in the Dutch capital before the start of the match. According to the Times of Israelseveral other attacks also started after the defeat of the Israeli team against Ajax.
Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof described these attacks as “totally unacceptable” and “anti -Semites”, adding that he was in contact with his Israeli counterpart.
He said the situation was under control and that the authors would be found and prosecuted.
Amsterdam police had written on that“A Palestinian flag had been torn from a facade by still unknown people” She played having “prevented a confrontation between a group of taxi drivers and a group of visitors to Max Euwe Square“Located in the city center.
Israel sends planes to repatriate their supporters
Netanyahu announced that he was sending planes to the Netherlands, including medical aircraft and rescue planes, and that he had maintained himself with the Dutch Prime Minister.
Lieutenant-Colonel Nadav Shoshani, TSAhal international spokesperson, described the decision to send planes to Amsterdam as part of a “Historical duty of protection of our people“.
Videos posted on social networks show chaos in the streets of the city, with groups that attack each other. A widely broadcast video, which was not independently checked by Euronews, shows a person on the ground in the middle of a street, hit with several people.
Dutch police said 57 people had already been arrested, many of whom in the Johan Cruyff Arena where the match was taking place.
She added that ten arrests had taken place even before the start of the match, when hundreds of Maccabi supporters gathered in the center of Amsterdam early Thursday.
Thirty other people were arrested in the Place Anton de Komplein, near the football stadium, where people protested the arrival of the Israeli football club and collided with the police.
The mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, had previously prohibited a demonstration in the stadium and had directed it to the square.
