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2024-11-10 Europe
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IRGC/Quds Force claimed responsibility for Amsterdam terror attack as Dutch gov’t investigates failure to prevent pogrom
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… but it appears no action was taken to warn local police or fans.
The Dutch Minister of Justice says they are examining why Israel’s warnings were dismissed and improperly handled.
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Dutch prosecutors impose fines on dozens of suspects in Amsterdam attacks on Maccabi fans
[IsraelTimes] Prosecutors in Amsterdam say that four suspects remain detained on suspicion of violent acts, including two minors, and that 40 people had been fined for public disturbance and 10 for offenses including vandalism over the brutal assaults on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in the Dutch city. The prosecutors add that they expect to make more arrests.
Druze Maccabi Tel Aviv fan says he yelled in Arabic to distract Amsterdam assailants
[IsraelTimes] Melhem Asad, a resident of the northern Druze town of Kisra-Sumei who is fan of the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team, recalls to Channel 12 news how he yelled in Arabic at a group of assailants in Amsterdam to prevent them from attacking Jewish fans of the team.
According to Asad, Maccabi fans were escorted by police to the match against Ajax due to anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian demonstrations but after the game “the local police just screwed up.”
“They didn’t guard us, we felt really exposed,” he says.
Asad says that he had nearly made it safely back to his hotel after the brutal attacks started when he encountered a group of Arabic-speaking suspects planning to assault Maccabi fans.
“I told them that no Jews are still here, that they escaped. I did everything to confuse them… I directed them the other way and then ran toward groups of Israelis and warned them that there are immigrants who are looking to hurt them,” he tells the network, explaining he told his fellow Maccabi supporters to take off their blue and yellow jerseys so they couldn’t be identified.
Asad says the violence reminded him of Hamas’s October 7 onslaught last year.
“I feel that God sent me at the right time and to the place to save whoever was possible,” he adds.
Dutch government probing missed Israeli warnings ahead of Amsterdam ‘pogrom’
[IsraelTimes] Official says Mossad asked local authorities to step up security at stadium, hotels after seeing social media ‘flare-up’; minister vows to find every attacker; 59 of 63 suspects freed
The Dutch government is investigating whether and how warning signs highlighted by Israel were missed in the events leading up to this week’s widespread attacks by local Arab and Muslim gangs on Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer fans in Amsterdam, Justice Minister David van Weel said in a letter to Parliament.
“An investigation is still being conducted on possible warning signs from Israel,” Van Weel said in his letter late on Friday evening.
“The Public Prosecution Service has stated that it aims to apply fast-track justice as much as possible,” van Weel said, adding that it is “the absolute priority” to identify every suspect.
Police on Saturday said four people remained in custody of the 63 people initially detained.
MOSSAD WARNINGS
A senior Israeli security official said Friday that Israeli security services had identified a “flare-up” on Dutch social media ahead of the game with calls by pro-Palestinian groups to hold a violent protest near the stadium.
“Due to this, the Mossad passed a warning to security services in the Netherlands with a request to immediately and significantly reinforce the security for Israelis in the area of the stadium and across the city, with an emphasis placed on hotels where the fans were known to be staying,” the official said.
However, he noted that Israel’s National Security Council had not been briefed on the threats and as such did not issue a warning to the public, including the some 3,000 fans who had traveled to see the match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax.
The official noted that the attacks, which he said “spread like wildfire” were apparently organized by Islamic elements in the Netherlands, and not by Iran, which has been accused of fomenting violent attacks on Israeli targets in other parts of Europe, particularly Sweden and Denmark.
Hebrew media on Friday also detailed that other Israeli ministries had also identified threats ahead of the game, with the Diaspora Affairs Ministry, which monitors antisemitism around the world, drawing up a warning document on Wednesday that highlighted the “very high risk” of such attacks, Channel 12 news reported.
It said the warning was based on “indications” in social media monitored by the ministry, which showed overt online coordination of plans for violent demonstrations, including an online post by a Dutch Palestinian group headed “No Zionists in UEFA/FIFA.”
PUBLIC AND FANS NOT WARNED
The ministry’s warning noted that protesters were being told not to carry Palestinian flags or other signs of Palestinian affiliation, and said the organizers were presenting the planned violent protests as constituting “a direct clash” with Israeli security forces and the Mossad.
The TV report said the ministry drew up its warning document in the light of what it saw as “the open encouragement of violence by the organizers of the demonstrations,” and the fact that there would be many children and identifiable Israelis in Amsterdam for the Maccabi Tel Aviv-Ajax soccer match.
The TV report said the Diaspora Affairs Ministry’s warning was shared with the Foreign Ministry and “a discussion was held.” But neither of the ministries, nor the National Security Council, issued warnings or guidelines to Maccabi or to the fans.
The report said the head of Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, is now in touch with his Dutch counterpart amid the ongoing investigation of suspected assailants who are in Dutch police custody, and what it classed as ongoing security issues.
It also said, without sourcing the claim, that there were “high alerts” at Israeli and Jewish facilities in Europe, and concerns about security at several forthcoming sporting events involving Israeli teams in the coming days.
While the outlet noted that Sports Minister Miki Zohar has recommended against Israeli fans traveling to matches in Europe, it stressed that the National Security Council, which issues such warnings, hasn’t done so and has no intention of changing the current travel guidance warnings.
Holland is on the NSC list of countries where a “Level 2” designation applies, indicating a “potential threat” and the need to take “precautionary measures.”
Israeli officials said 10 citizens were injured in the overnight violence. Hundreds more Israelis huddled in their hotels for hours, fearing they could be attacked.
Many said that Dutch security forces were nowhere to be found as the Israeli tourists were ambushed by gangs of masked assailants who shouted pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel slogans as they hunted, beat and harassed them.
The mayor of the Dutch capital on Friday banned demonstrations for three days and gave police emergency stop-and-search power after the attacks which she called “antisemitic hit-and-run squads.”
Mayor Femke Halsema said Maccabi soccer fans had been “attacked, abused and pelted with fireworks” around the city, and that riot police intervened to protect them and escort them to hotels.
“Antisemitic hit-and-run squads” managed to evade a force of around 200 officers, she said.
Halsema said city police had been taken by surprise after security services failed to flag the match against Ajax Amsterdam as high risk.
Ajax is known as a soccer club with links to Amsterdam’s Jewish community because visiting fans had to pass the city’s Jewish quarter to get to the club’s former stadium. Ajax fans sometimes wave Star of David flags and chant the Dutch word for Jews.
Security has been tightened in the city, where a service was planned at a Jewish monument on Saturday.
The incidents in Amsterdam spurred fears of similar violence across Europe. However, a basketball match in Italy involving Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv on Friday ended without incident.
Israeli authorities had advised fans to stay away from that game. “Calls continue on social media to harm Israelis and Jews, and there are concerns that the events of the last 24 hours may lead to a wave of copycat actions and further disturbances and attacks against Israelis abroad,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement on Friday.
“In light of this, the National Security Council is advising Israelis to avoid attending Maccabi Tel Aviv’s game in Bologna and to avoid displaying visible Israeli or Jewish symbols as much as possible.”
The EuroLeague match, which Virtus Bologna won 84-77, was held amid extra security ordered by Bologna’s police chief, who also assigned a special escort to the Israeli team, Italian media reported.
“Growing antisemitism is unacceptable and horrible, and it is our duty to guarantee complete security to all our citizens of the Jewish religion,” Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said in a statement.
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