There were two demonstrations in The Hague: one of ‘Els Right’ and one of extreme right-wing clubs and hooligans. But there are also cross -connections

When the The Hague train station is running out at the Centraal on Saturday afternoon and hundreds of people walk towards the Malieveld, it can immediately be seen that not one, but two demonstrations will take place today. The official of ‘Els Right’-with a line-up of mostly unknown right-wing politicians from the Rijnmond region. And a second, not registered with the municipality of football hooligans, extreme right-wing clubs, ‘Freedom Fighters’ and other rioters.

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The gathering place of the Els fans is at the front, at the stage. The rioters are closer to the station, on the concrete skating track behind the poffertjes and pancake pavilion Malieveld. The dress code also differs. At Els Right, which is actually called Els Noort, there is a lot of color, Oranges shirts, people waving with FVD flags or are wrapped in the Dutch flag. The boys and men who have come to fight are almost without exception dressed in black. They have shirts with nationalist prints, such as ‘Defend Nederland’ or ‘Defend Holland’.

It is a wonderful mix of somewhat older men from the extreme right-wing corner who seem to know each other and fall around their necks, and young boys with caps, balaclavas or hoods on. The older men drink beer and smoke a joint. A boy in black, with on his vest ‘Netherlands Defense Force’, says that there will be ADO fans and, pointing to the station, that it will be really busy.

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Just before 1 o’clock, the time when Els Noort will open her demonstration a hundred meters away, the fireworks appear. Smoke pots, popping, flares. “We are the Netherlands, we are NE-Der-Land,” the men chant. And: “AZC away with it”.

During the first speech of the afternoon – Van Wybren van Haga, whose ‘Movement for the Netherlands’ is well represented on the stage of Els – the extreme right -wing football cluster at the skate track is busy with a group photo. They all pose, at least a thousand men, behind a special banner that says ‘Dutch firms unite’ – a sign of unity of the generally fierce hard cores of supporters. “Club rivalry on the side, Red Nederland,” said another banner.

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Van Haga praises the hooligans in his speech. He has heard “that they have offered to keep the demonstration safe and peaceful. Great!”.

See you tomorrow!!

Cross -relationship with hard cores

It is not the only cross bond between Els Noort and the hard cores of football supporters. For example, Els says a day before the demonstration “see you tomorrow !!” With four hearts behind it on the Facebook page of ‘Dutch Hooligan Scene’. That is a page with 25,000 followers, where actions of football hooligans with photos and moving images are celebrated. Els places her reaction under a photo of a banner of The Hague Hooligans with the text ‘Enough is enough. Not too late, not too early. 20-09-2025 12:30 “.” Tomorrow Malieveld! ” is above the photo.

But on Saturday it appears that the ultra’s did not come for Els, but for a confrontation with the police. After the group photo they ignore the stage and head towards the A12, where the mobile unit and a water cannon are waiting.

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It is the beginning of what the Mayor Jan van Zanen in The Hague will call an “unprecedented eruption of violence in the evening, in which” groups of hooligans from all parts of the country “came to The Hague for” deliberate riots. ” Its intensity surprised the police, even though it had been pulled out to the Malieveld with large equipment.

Good demo with many fighters of many hard cores with 1 goal

Online calls extreme right

Those looking for online find calls from extreme right -wing organizations that are preparing for a visit to the Malieveld. Such as from Defend Nederland, a loose-solid bandage from nationalists-created during the corona protests in 2021. The Bossche department, which has overlaps with the hard supporters center of FC Den Bosch, can be seen on a Facebook page, rented a coach to travel from the Oosterplas parking lot to Malieveld.

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In recent years, hard cores of football clubs have increasingly been involved in actions with a right-wing extremist character. In 2020, an AIVD spokesperson said NRC That the service was concerned about the consequences for public order. “If the extreme right and football hooligans start working together more and more, it will become more massive and possibly more violent,” said the spokesperson. Football hooligans had surfaced in the years before in actions for the preservation of Zwarte Piet, against ‘Black Lives Matter‘And during riots with right-wing extremists against the corona measures.

Reactions after murder of Liza

Since the murder of 17-year-old Lisa from Abcoude last August, for which an asylum seeker was arrested, various supporters groups in stadiums have made their displeasure with the asylum policy known. They brought Dutch flags and chanted slogans like ‘AZC away’. Sometimes prince flags could also be seen, which were also worn by the NSB in the 1930s and 40s of the last century. In the run -up to the demonstation of Els on the right, several calls on the Facebook page of Dutch Hooligan Scene to come to the Malieveld on Saturday.

Before Els Noort presented herself online as Els on the right, she called herself Els PVV. She maintains close ties with the party. Els Noort was shown around the Lower House by PVV MP Dion Graus and visited Geert Wilders several times. Wilders was quickly there on Saturday to distance himself from the violence during the protest organized by Els Noort. “Tackling that harness,” he wrote on X.

Forum for Democracy (FVD) announced in a written response Els to the right as an online activist “for the PVV”, with which the party in the field of immigration has interfaces. “We saw her call to organize a demonstration in the first instance as a joke. When it turned out to be serious, the board of FvD made the assessment not to go, because we had no confidence in the organization. We later learned that one of our council members who had been approached by Els himself had the intention to speak.

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Els Noort himself said afterwards in a video message on X ‘shocked’ by the violence. She said the behavior of football hooligans ‘improper’ and ‘not Okay’, but also with an accusing finger at Antifa left -wing activists, who were not visibly present around the Malieveld but would still be responsible for the violence. Els Noort also said that she has learned from the protest that she will “never again” organize something like this in the future.

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