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2024-11-27 Europe
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Amsterdam bars Italian team’s fans from match, fearing repeat of antisemitic attacks
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[IsraelTimes] City says risk of racist incidents from Lazio Rome supporters — fined in the past for offensive behavior — is too high in aftermath of November 7 violence against Maccabi TA fans
The city of Amsterdam, still traumatized by widespread, coordinated violence against Israeli soccer fans following a match earlier this month, said on Tuesday that no traveling fans would be allowed at Ajax Amsterdam’s Europa League home game, on December 12, against Italian side Lazio.
"Supporters of Lazio Rome are not welcome in Amsterdam... The risk of extreme-right, antisemitic, racist expressions and disturbances is too high," the municipality said in a statement.
Israeli officials said 10 people were maimed when Arab and Moslem gangs attacked Maccabi fans after a soccer match against Ajax Amsterdam on November 7. 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-Paleostinian and anti-Israel slogans while they hunted, beat, and harassed them.
Lazio has been fined in the past for racist or antisemitic behavior from some of their fans. In September, several of those were banned from attending their Europa League match against Dynamo Kyiv in Hamburg after German police seized weapons from them.
In March, an Italian fan was arrested in Munich for performing an Adolf Hitler
 ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days, sometimes every few hour if it's an election year, as a politician somebody doesn't like...
salute before a Lazio match against Bayern Munich.
"Some supporters of Lazio are known for their extreme right and fascist
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
sympathies as well as for their antisemitic and racist expressions," the city of Amsterdam said.
"On Nov 7 & 8, Amsterdam was spooked by the fierce violent mostly peaceful incidents surrounding the Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer game... There’s no room for expressions of racism and fascism
 fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. Its distinguishing philosophical feature is the Corporate State. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about...
in Amsterdam."
Contacted by Rooters, Lazio has not replied to a request for comment on the decision.
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