New details emerge about violent incident against Israeli soccer fans

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A Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer match in Amsterdam against the Dutch team Ajax became a point of global controversy last November. 

Maccabi Tel Aviv FC supporters were reportedly the target of violence in Amsterdam on Thursday before and during the soccer team’s match against Ajax. Dozens were arrested and five people received hospital treatment after a series of violent overnight incidents.

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Pro-Palestinians demonstrate at Amsterdam's Anton de Komplein square ahead of the UEFA Europa League football match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv on November 7, 2024. (JEROEN JUMELET/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

Over the weekend, the public prosecution service announced it had dropped investigations into several Maccabi supporters because the city’s tram company, GVB, had deleted footage that could have been used as evidence. The company replaced recording equipment at two metro stations in Amsterdam after the attacks and footage from the night was lost.

Still, more than a dozen people have already been charged in connection with the violence and several have already been convicted. 

Two inquiries into the events said in reports Monday that social media posts coupled with a lack of official information fueled the violence that followed the November match. 

The Rotterdam-based Institute for Safety and Crisis Management, tasked by the Amsterdam government to investigate the response to the violence, said the lack of official communication from the city allowed