דער קערפער פֿון השםIt was an infamous night in #football.
More than 5,000 #Dutch #police officers had to be deployed to contain hundreds of #Israeli fans embarking on a post-match rampage, tearing down #Palestinian flags, assaulting #Muslim taxi drivers and throwing innocent bystanders into a river.
The only problem with this account, supplied by #WestMidlands police in support of a highly sensitive decision to ban #Maccabi #TelAviv fans from travelling to a match at #VillaPark last November, is that this week an independent review by the chief inspector of constabulary, #AndyCooke, concluded that much of it is either exaggerated or flat wrong. (Dutch police told his inspectors that they deployed 1,200 officers, had reports regarding one flag and one taxi driver, and that a Maccabi fan was in fact thrown into a canal, seemingly by members of a pro-#Palestinian group)."
Whoopsie!
