The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, announced on Saturday, November 9 on platform occurred during the week in the Netherlands, within the framework of the soccer match between Ajax Amsterdam and the Israeli club Maccabi Tel-Aviv.
In reaction to the tweet of the national secretary of the Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, which condemned a “Growing and unbearable hatred” towards Jews following the violence against the Israeli club’s supporters, the elected representative of Ille-et-Vilaine wrote: “ These people were not lynched because they were Jewish, but because they were racist and supported genocide. »
“I have decided to inform the Paris prosecutor about the comments of the deputy Marie Mesmeur, under article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, for apologizing for a crime”wrote Bruno Retailleau on Saturday night.
Sixty-three arrests
Maccabi Tel-Aviv fans were violently attacked by groups of individuals in the streets of Amsterdam, during the night from Thursday to Friday after the Europa League match, in a context marked by the increase in anti-Semitic and anti-Israel acts throughout the world. since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in October 2023.
The mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, spoke at a press conference about groups of individuals who attacked the fans of the Israeli club, hitting and kicking them. “It is an explosion of anti-Semitism that I hope to never see again”said m.me Halsema, who said that she ” pity “ of this violence.
Police reported five people briefly hospitalized and 63 arrested, and Israel organized emergency flights to repatriate its citizens. Four people, including two minors, remained detained on Saturday and will be presented before a judge at the beginning of the week, the prosecutor’s office said.
The Dutch government and many foreign leaders have condemned the attacks.
All demonstrations banned for three days from Friday
On Wednesday afternoon, the day before the match, there were incidents in certain neighborhoods: Maccabi fans tore down a Palestinian flag from a façade in the city center and burned another flag in Dam Square. They also raised anti-Palestinian slogans.
The Dutch capital, nicknamed “Mokum” or “safe place” in Yiddish, is historically considered a refuge for the Jewish community, except during the period of World War II, the figure of Anne Frank, who had lived in hiding with it. family in Amsterdam, and remains a symbol of the deportation of the Jewish people.
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An evening to commemorate Kristallnacht in Amsterdam, in memory of the pogroms carried out across Germany in 1938 by the Nazis against the Jews, was cancelled. On Friday, the city council banned all demonstrations for three days and adopted emergency measures to protect certain sensitive places in the city.
In France, despite fears about the security of the event, the Nations Football League match between the Bles and Israel will take place on Thursday at the Stade de France, the Minister of the Interior decided.
