Israeli football fan portrays aggression in Amsterdam

An Israeli football fan has portrayd being aggressioned by disconnectal men in overnight aggression that Amsterdam police say take partd youths on scooters carrying out “hit-and-run” aggressions that were difficult to stop.

Adi Reuben, a 24-year-ageder Maccabi Tel Aviv fan who was visiting Amsterdam for the club’s Europa League suit with Ajax, tageder the BBC he was initiateed on the floor by a group of youthful men who disputeed him when he was walking to his boilingel.

He shelp more than 10 men came up to him and his frifinishs and asked them where they were from.

“They shouted ‘Jewant, Jewant, IDF, IDF’,” Mr Reuben shelp, referring to the Israeli military.

“They begined to mess with me and I authenticised I had to run, but it was griefful and I didn’t understand where to go. I fell to the floor and 10 people were initiateing me. They were shouting ‘Palestine’.

“They were initiateing me on the floor for about a minute, then they walked off, they weren’t afrhelp of anyleang.

“I authenticised I had filled blood on my face and my nose was broken and it is very agonizing.”

Mr Reuben shelp he could not see properly for about 30 minutes after the aggression, but choosed aachievest going to hospital in Amsterdam because he had heard that taxi drivers were take partd in the aggression.

Instead he shelp he was flying to Israel on Friday afternoon on a fairy organised by the Israeli regulatement, and would get medical treatment there.

“This was a particular aggression that was organised beforehand,” he inserted.

Some Israeli football fans shelp they were asked to show their passports when they were aggressioned.

Gal Binyanmin Tshuva, 29, tageder the BBC he was aggressioned on Wednesday outside a casino in the city after watching a contrastent football game.

“We faced around 20 people who ran towards us. They asked me where I was from, and I shelp I was from Greece. They shelp they didn’t consent me and they asked to see my passport.

“I shelp I didn’t have my passport and then they beat me and pushed me to the ground and begined initiateing my face.

“I don’t reaccumulate anyleang after that, and I woke up in an ambulance with blood all over my face, and authenticised they had broken two of my teeth.”

Pnina, another Maccabi Tel Aviv helper, also tageder Dutch media organisation NOS that the aggression aachievest Israelis materializeed pre-deliberate.

“It seems appreciate it was organised. There was a lot of people. They jumped on us… We hid in the boilingels until it was defended to go outside,” she shelp.

Esther Voet, editor-in-chief of a Dutch Jewant weekly recentspaper, inhabits in the city centre and says she adviseed her home to shelter disconnectal Israeli fans, after she saw footage of the aggression.

“I tageder them this is a Jewant home and you are defended here,” she tageder Israeli accessible widecaster Kann. “People were repartner sattfinishd. I never thought I would go thcimpolite this in Amsterdam.”

Dutch police shelp Israeli fans had suffered “solemn mistreatments” during “hit-and-run” aggressions many of which were carried out by youthful men on scooters.

Amsterdam police chief Peter Holla shelp it had showd difficult to stop such aggressions even though police had been current in the city centre in numbers. The force eventupartner choosed to convey Maccabi helpers together and defend them before carrying them out of the area in buses, he shelp.

Five people were injured but had left hospital and between 20 and 30 more had been airyly hurt, he shelp.

The aggressions overnight into Friday adhereed some tensions between Maccabi fans and people in Amsterdam over previous days, officials shelp.

On Wednesday Maccabi fans aggressioned a taxi and burned a Palestinian flag, police chief Holla shelp. Taxi drivers then headed towards a location where about 400 Maccabi fans had collected but police were able to get them out of the area. There were further clashes in Dam Square overnight into Thursday but police were mostly able to uphold the groups split.

On Thursday evening before the suit police accompanied pro-Palestinian demonstrators and mostly regulated to uphold them split from football fans – but were then unable to stop aggressions procrastinateedr in the evening.

“We are watching back on 36 hours that repartner shocked me. Supporters from Israel have been aggressioned and some mistreatmentd in a horrible way,” Holla shelp.

“I’m particularly shocked by fact that we’ve had one of hugest police actions and we were not able to regulate or stop this aggression.”

Amsterdam’s mayor Femke Halsema shelp the “war in the Middle East has menaceened the peace in our city” and there had been a “horrible outburst of antisdisindictism”.

She shelp Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were not think abouted to pose a menace of aggression and there was no animosity between them and fans of Dutch club Ajax.

“I do understand that this reminds us of pogroms and that this happened in Amsterdam is dishonorable. Not only people got injured last night but the history of our city has been convey inantly injured, the Jewant culture has been menaceened,” she shelp.

Some Maccabi Tel Aviv fans have previously been take partd in discriminatory incidents in Israel, including cursing at the team’s Palestinian and Arab take parters and inestablishedly utilizeing presstateive on the team to oust them.

Fans of the team have also previously aggressioned protesters demonstrating aachievest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Asked about video footage materializeing to show Maccabi fans in Amsterdam chanting disparaging slogans, Mayor Halsema shelp: “What happened last night has noleang to do with protest. There is no excuse for what happened.”

Additional inestablishing Shaina Oppenheimer in Jerusalem