At least three people were arrested tonight at a demonstration by supporters of football club Go Ahead Eagles in Leeuwarden. According to Omrop Fryslân, fireworks were thrown and there was an aggressive atmosphere. A reporter from Hart van Nederland was made impossible to work because his microphone was taken away.
The supporters of the club from Deventer gathered near the stadium of SC Cambuur in Leeuwarden. Go Ahead Eagles played against Cambuur tonight (1-0 defeat), but the fans from Deventer were not allowed to be there by the municipality and therefore protested against the closure of the branch.
About 100 supporters attended the protest. Two occupants of a car were arrested for carrying a baseball bat. A third occupant ran into a nearby cafe and was apprehended by officers.
Disturbances after Frisian derby
At Cambuur, the municipality of Leeuwarden will no longer allow away supporters at all for the time being. Riots recently broke out in the city after the Frisian derby against sc Heerenveen: supporters of the visiting club were then pelted with stones. Mayor Buma wants to limit this.
Go Ahead Eagles director Jan Willem van Dop thinks it is “the world turned upside down” that the visiting club is the victim of the behavior of supporters of the home club: “It is almost falsification of the competition”.
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