154 football fans were arrested in Amsterdam for singing anti-Semitic chants before a match. Alkmaar fans were targeting Ajax Amsterdam, which is often associated with the Jewish community.
154 supporters spent the night in cells, but not before smashing the windows of one of the buses that was taking them to the police station. The Central Jewish Presbytery of the Netherlands expresses its satisfaction at seeing the authorities "tackle anti-Semitism head-on" The consistory had already had to file a complaint in April for anAnti-Semitic incident at De Kuip, the Feyenoord stadium in Rotterdam.