On the terrace of Café Mascini on the Zeedijk, visitors are joining forces. “The Russians!,” Shouts a lady in a panic. Her neighbor: “I immediately thought of an attack and that if the dust clouds were raised, we would not be anymore. Anyway, if it had to be that way, then we would at least go together.”
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Fortunately, the fighter jet of the Air Combat Command, the instigator of all commotion, soon disappears from the picture. Favering and strangers raise together, relieved, the glass. “We’re still there!” The neighbor cannot get out of it. “There is war everywhere around us. And suddenly it felt very close. I also had to think of all those refugees who live here and the violence fled in their country. What should they not have thought. I think this is really outrageous. Tasteless.”
Public -greeting
The four fighter jets flew around six in a so -called ‘fly -by’ towards IJ -Haven – close to three military helicopters – as a tribute and air greeting on the ships of Sail yesterday. “With this public greeting, the Royal Netherlands Air Force wants to make the connection of Defense visible with society,” said a news item. Only that society was shocked by that yesterday. “I have been living in Amsterdam for life, but I had never heard of this sound,” said one of patio visitors.
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It also rained reactions on Facebook. “The cups in the house were shaking and the cat flew into the air,” it sounded. And: “I immediately had to think of the Bijlmer disaster. I thought,” Soon a plane crashes here. ” Another: “I got a 9/11 feeling.” People saw how neighbors fled out and on the street were shaking and crying with fear. “The birds were also upset.”
‘Panic sowing’
Not everyone shared the fearful reactions. “What a panic sowers here. Do normal. Is for Sail. Really nice to see! And:” Under which stone are some people. It was opening Sail, with a lot of Marine training ships and that is a tribute. ” Panic sowers? Not everyone picked that up. “We were shocked here!” It might have been useful if the fighter jet campaign was more clearly announced in advance “Now it just came on everyone’s roof!” Anyway, Sail is ushered in with a hefty bang!