Counterterror office had concerns over Kristallnacht event, Ajax-Maccabi match before riots
NL TimesThe national counterterrorism office “requested attention” from local authorities in Amsterdam to the possible consequences of the football match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv, which coincided with the commemoration of Kristallnacht, a wide-scale assault on Jews in Nazi Germany a year before World War II started. Minister David van Weel wrote in a letter to the lower house of Dutch parliament about the violence in the capital against fans of the Israeli club after the match. However, Van Weel pointed out that “the competent authority” could also take measures “as part of its responsibility for public order." “It is important that we learn how this horrible night could have happened and that we prevent something like this from ever happening again in the Netherlands," Van Weel said.
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