An 18-year-old AZ supporter was wrongly given an area and stadium ban and a reporting obligation for three months from the judiciary after the stadium storm during AZ-NEC. A total of six ‘hooligans’ between the ages of 18 and 34 were arrested for public assault. Three appealed and one was proved right today. “My son has never been to the stadium. This is muscle behavior from the police and the judiciary.”
That is what father Mark tells NH Nieuws. It’s about the evening of November 20: tens hooligans illegally stormed the stadium along the A9 in. They enter the field and pelt, among other things, stewards with fireworks. The police, the judiciary, the municipality of Alkmaar and AZ take safety measures and start a major investigation.
Apparently Mark’s son comes forward in this, because on a late Monday evening in December the police are at his and his parents’ door. Father Mark: “Around 00.00 hours the doorbell rang. Cas had to get dressed immediately and was handcuffed by two agents and taken away as if it were some mafioso. Not bad for an 18-year-old boy.”
Camera images at cafe
Cas (a fictitious name) is that Saturday afternoon before the game at an Alkmaar café where AZ supporters meet more often and drink beer: he is seen on camera images. According to justice, plans are being made at that pub to penetrate the stadium during the Eredivisie match against NEC that evening, where no supporters are allowed due to the corona measures.
In the seventeenth minute of the game, screams can be heard through the stadium. Dozens of men in balaclavas, face masks, hoods and dark clothing broke through the fences, seen in the images below. Some provocatively climb onto the field and fireworks are set off.
At the police station a few weeks later, Cas’ phone is confiscated and after a long night in jail he has to explain that evening.
“Yes, I was at that pub and yes, I went to the stadium afterwards. But I had no intention of rioting. I did not go in either, I walked twenty meters behind that group. I wanted my club from outside. encourage the stadium,” the teenager tells the police, his father and lawyer tell. Around that time, five other AZ supporters were arrested.
Although Cas declares in the negative, according to the judiciary, he is indeed guilty of open violence. Because there is a prospect of prosecution, the officer imposed a so-called behavioral instruction: an area ban in and near the AZ stadium and a reporting obligation at home and away matches.
“Due to the seriousness of his behavior and the fear of repetition,” the Public Prosecution Service told NH Nieuws. A press release will be issued via the police on December 22: six people from Alkmaar, including 18-year-old Cas, will be prosecuted for the stadium storm. Totally unjustified, says the teenager’s lawyer Joost Kleiman against NH Nieuws.
According to his lecture, the Public Prosecution Service says that he recognizes the teenager on the camera images of the pub in other videos from inside the stadium. In the police file he would appear in three photos. “But the men in the photos are wearing a completely different color of pants and a different jacket. That is absolutely not Cas,” said Kleiman.
Today, together with Cas and Mark, he appealed against the conduct order and the council chamber just decided in Cas’s favor: the one and a half months that he had an area ban and had to report to the police during a game of his club were unjustified. .
“The judge also found it all too unclear,” says father Mark. The 18-year-old Cas remains a suspect in the case, but it is not yet clear when he and the other five Alkmaarders will have to answer to the judge. “Although my son was just allowed to be at that stadium that evening, as a father you really think: what are you looking for there? But he reasons differently.”
Mark thinks the way the police and the judiciary have treated his son ‘disproportionate’. “He only got his phone back after four days. I think that’s an invasion of privacy. He was a minor last week.”
The appeal of the other two supporters was declared unfounded by the council chamber.