Angry and disappointed: this is how Mayor Anja Schouten of Alkmaar reacts to the behavior of a large group of AZ supporters yesterday before the match against Ajax. More than 150 supporters were arrested for singing anti-Semitic songs in a metro on their way to the Johan Cruijff ArenA.
Schouten finds the behavior of the supporters ‘unacceptable’, precisely on a day just after 4 and 5 May. “I am extremely angry and disappointed about this misbehavior of this group of football visitors. Especially just after May 4 and 5. Anti-Semitism is unacceptable and does not belong anywhere, not in our municipality, not in football, not at AZ,” she says. know his reaction.
“This goes against the values that we must stand for together and certainly also in our municipality. I endorse AZ’s response and will talk to the club.”
Emphatically distance
AZ announced on the site this afternoon that it ‘rejects and condemns’ the supporters’ chants. According to the club, it concerns ‘a small part of the supporters’. “The club strongly disapproves of inflammatory behavior and discrimination in any form and strongly distances itself from those who are guilty of it.”
AZ says that it awaits the investigation of the police and the judiciary and will provide all cooperation that is requested.
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