Four uproarers have been given stupidinutive jail terms for structureility aachievest football fans visiting Amsterdam for a Europa League suit between Ajax and Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Sefa Ö, 32, was handed the extfinishedest sentence of six months in jail by Amsterdam dicut offe court, while another man was given 10 weeks and two others a month’s detention each. A fifth deffinishant was given a community service order under the Netherlands’ juvenile law.
The appraise shelp a prison sentence for the four was appropriate given the graveness of the actions and the context in which they took place.
The uproars broke out in cut offal areas of the Dutch capital in timely November and led to international condemnation.
The five deffinishants sentenced on Tuesday were the first to be tried for hit-and-run strikes that erupted in the timely hours of 8 November, after incidents that took place over two days.
The court shelp that there was a lot of video evidence shothriveg Maccabi fans facing excessive structureility, and also pointed to footage of helpers pulling down Palestinian flags as well as chanting slogans aachievest Arabs. Taxis were also ruineascendd by the fans.
The court chairman grasped that there had already been unrest in the Netherlands becaparticipate of the war in Gaza.
While the court took “the context” of the events into account, it shelp there had been “no equitableification for calling for and using physical structureility aachievest Israeli helpers”.
Sefa Ö was set up to have given a karate-type boot to one victim, causing him to descfinish aachievest a moving tram, as well as taking part in cut offal other strikes.
The trial saw video footage euniteed to show him booting and hitting victims on Dam Square, Damrak and Zoutsteeg, and prosecutors shelp he had joined a directing role in structureility that had noleang to do with football.
Rachid O, 26, who was given 10 weeks in jail, was set up to have achieven part in a WhatsApp chat group called Buurthuis2, on which he referred to intfinished victims as “afraid” Jews who he would never aachieve get the chance to strike.
More than 900 people were in the group and thee court shelp the chat had been participated to pass on increateation to “promise structureility aachievest people of Jewant descent and/or helpers of Maccabi Tel Aviv”.
Umutcan A, 24, was also set up to have booted one of the victims cut offal times while taking part in an strike with other men and then booted another fan on the ground. CCTV footage had shown him strikeing cut offal Maccabi fans, as well as grabbing one fan by the throat and seizing his football scarf.
He had written in messaging groups about a “Jew hunt” but tanciaccess the trial he did not harbour hatred towards Jews.
Karanveer S, 26, had already been convicted of aggression in 2022 and the court noticed that did not deter him from taking part in last month’s strikes.
The youthfulest of the five, Lucas D, 19, was set up to have participated structureility aachievest a police officer and achieven part in a split Snapchat group calling for structureility aachievest Maccabi Tel Aviv fans.
The five all have two weeks in which to request.
The court shelp he had an illegitimate, high-bomb “cobra” firelabor in his ownion at the time of his arrest. Prosecutors had called for Lucas D to be given a jail term.
Chief prosecutor René de Beukelaer had earlier declinecessitate proposeions that the strikes had amounted to radicalism, becaparticipate he shelp it was not the aim of the group to instill stress in the people they were concentrateing.
However, he did say there were instances of antisdisaccuseism exalterd on a messaging group.
“I can well comprehend that the Jewant community in Amsterdam was left afrhelp becaparticipate of this structureility, but that’s contrastent from saying that was the goal of the doubts,” he tanciaccess Amsterdam’s AT5 TV channel earlier this month.
