The regular Dutchman:
„Eight months in prison demanded for Hague resident who kicked Maccabi
fan: 'The worst thing was that my mother recognized me on TV'“
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„More than a month after dozens of Arab men went on a so-called “Jew
hunt” for Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam, the trials of seven suspects
revealed this week new information on the logistics of the event that
shocked Jews and others worldwide.
The information, which was revealed on Wednesday at a court in
Amsterdam, exposed the antisemitic agitation of the alleged
perpetrators, and also how organizers worked for days to bus in culprits
from across the Netherlands to ambush Israelis, whom the attackers often
referred to simply as “Jews.”
The new information contradicts the popular narrative in the Netherlands
that the assaults of Nov. 7 were a spontaneous reaction to Israeli
soccer fans’ provocations.“
„A defendant identified as Rachid O., 26, from Utrecht allegedly shared
locations throughout the night of Nov. 7 of “cancer Jews to beat up,” as
he wrote, to the 900 members of the main WhatsApp group of that night’s
“Jew hunt,” as participants called the series of assaults.
(“Cancer Jew” is a common antisemitic term in Dutch.)
The group was initially titled “Free Palstine” [sic] but renamed
“Neighborhood Home 2,” in a possible attempt to camouflage it.“
„A defendant identified as Umutcan A. from The Hague claimed that he
participated in the assaults because he was “afraid” of the Maccabi
fans, The Algemeen Dagblad, aka AD, newspaper reported. “It was a stupid
instinct. Basically I’m just a regular Dutchman, a citizen who just
works and pays my taxes,” he told judges.
Prosecutors on Thursday presented evidence from WhatsApp chats of
Umutcan planning to “attack Jews” and going on a “Jew hunt.” One of his
friends praised Umutcan on the chat. “He thumped a lot of Jews. He was
the star of the evening again,” that person wrote about Umutcan, whom
prosecutors want jailed for eight months.
The heaviest sentence request by the prosecution, that of two years in
prison, was against a man identified as Sefa Ö., 32. He was filmed
kicking a man against a moving tram and punching another man while he
was on the ground, the AD news site reported on Wednesday.“
„Antisemitic rhetoric was rife in correspondence in the WhatsApp groups,
AD reported.
On the day of the assaults, perpetrators may have arranged
transportation for culprits from outside Amsterdam, the Het Parool daily
reported.
“People from other cities want to come,” one group member, Amir, wrote
after 4 p.m. on Nov. 7, several hours before the assaults. “We have 20
cars here,” another replied.“
„When Israelis were identified in the city center, at around midnight,
members wrote on the WhatsApp group: “ASSEMBLE AT CENTRAL STATION” and
“WE HAVE TO MAKE THOSE CANCER JEWS FEEL WHAT THEY DID TO OUR BROTHERS,”
a reference to Israel’s attacks on Hamas in Gaza, Het Parool reported.
On Nov. 18, Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema retracted her initial use of
the word “pogrom” to describe the attacks.
“I have to say that in the days that followed, I have seen how the word
‘pogrom’ became very political, propaganda in fact. The Israeli
government speaks of ‘a Palestinian pogrom on the streets of Amsterdam’,
Dutch politicians use the word ‘pogrom’ mainly to discriminate against
Moroccan residents, Muslims. That is not what I meant and that is not
what I wanted,” said Halsema, a former leader of the far-left GreenLeft
party.“
https://www.jns.org/trials-expose-logistics-planning-behind-amsterdam-pogrom/
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