‘As-salamu alaykum dear people. I really cook from the inside, you should know that.” Morad Baddaou from Amsterdam – big, black beard – looks frustrated into the camera of his phone. A video of his hand will appear on TikTok on Sunday evening, which has been viewed almost a hundred thousand times a day later and has generated thousands of approving reactions from Moroccan-Dutch young people. “Why does it have to come to this? Why do we always have to screw up? You give Wilders and his Belgian colleague even more work.”
Baddaou is actually a ritual washer by profession, but on Sunday he will take on the role of digital neighborhood father. “Why can’t you stay home after a game of football or go home quietly?” he exclaims. “How can you be happy that you set your scooters on fire and knock over cars? You are ruining the future of our children, our parents and ourselves. We are not hooligans , we are Muslims. We must lead by example. It must have been enough. Where is your heart?”
After the Moroccan team defeated Belgium 2-0 at the World Cup in Qatar this weekend, unrest broke out in several places. The festive atmosphere around the Rotterdam Kruisplein soon changed. According to the police, a group of about five hundred people seized the party to riot: firecrackers and glass were thrown at police. Police with dogs, police on horseback and riot police charged to push back the crowd. Two officers were (slightly) injured.
Elsewhere, the municipality of The Hague was remarkably well prepared. The fine-meshed network of neighborhood fathers, street coaches and volunteers walking around on the street quickly picked up signals. Nevertheless, disturbances also arose in the Schilderswijk in The Hague and the riot police was deployed to expel the young people.
Why can’t you go home quietly after a game of football?
Flicking cars, scooters and steps
The evening was not much different on Amsterdam’s Mercatorplein, although the police seemed less prepared here, according to a statement that appeared on Monday afternoon: “There was no information before the Belgium-Morocco match that disturbances would arise regardless of the result.” And so on Sunday evening fireworks bombs flew around, shared scooters caught fire and an electric shared car exploded in the middle of the busy intersection. The fire continued to burn for at least an hour, as rioters continued to throw whatever was at hand — lamp oil, road signs — on the fire. The owner of a tobacconist near the burning car closed his business after passers-by fled to his shop when a fireworks bomb exploded. The other businesses also closed their doors prematurely.
The next morning, Monday, peace had returned to Mercatorplein. Other than a charred black scar from a burnt-down car and an overturned flower box next to the ice cream stand, little reminds of the restless evening.
But things are rumbling in the Moroccan-Dutch community. Shopkeepers on Mercatorplein are wary when asked about the events. They weigh their words carefully. Opinions are also divided on social media and discussions are heated. Did a small group of Moroccan-Dutch young people ruin it for the rest of the community? Or did a receptacle of rioters hijack the revelry?
Geert Wilders devoted at least nine messages to the riots within 24 hours, such as: “Criminal scum now out of the country.” Minister Yesilgöz (Justice and Security, VVD) posted an outraged tweet. “Riotists, really, shame on you.”
Little is known about the background and motives of the rioters on Mercatorplein. One arrest was made on the night itself. However, there are many camera images and the police say several arrests “cannot be ruled out”.
A bad name
“Here, I will show you this video,” says a 24-year-old boy on Monday morning who does not want his name in NRC . In the video, which takes place in a building near Mercatorplein, a Moroccan-Dutch boy addresses a blond man of about 35 years old. “I told you: better not do it,” says the boy. “Because who gets a bad name? The Moroccans! I assume you are not Moroccan. If you start urging little boys to do bad, of course we’ll get a bad name bro.”
“This is an action of decisiveness,” responds the blond man. “We are all against the system.” The Moroccan-Dutch youngster reacts frustrated: “Today we have not come to fight against the system.”
Curfew riots
“It’s like with the curfew riots,” says the boy who showed the video. “Hooligans come here and then it is said that they were all Moroccans. They certainly were there, in the beginning the mood was still cheerful, there was dancing. But suddenly it turned.”
The boy was working in his own business on the square on Sunday evening and had to close its doors due to the unrest. “If I go to the supermarket here later, I will be seen as that Moroccan, while I have nothing to do with it. I am really sorry that this is happening.”
The Amsterdam security triangle of mayor, police and Public Prosecution Service has announced that it will study the commitment to Morocco against Canada next Thursday. In Rotterdam, the police will immediately scale up where necessary. In The Hague, several parties are calling for additional measures, but the municipality has informed Omroep West that it does not expect any new unrest in view of the competition.
He is not wrong.
Also strong message from the person, we need more people like him
A more nuanced article, as opposed to all the click-bait titles that have been posted about this. Turns out it was a mix of hooligans and people that just wanted to fight with the police, from a diverse set of background, not just Moroccan.
Moreover, these riots have been harshly criticised by the Dutch-Moroccan community at large.
Deport the cunts.
As someone from Eastern European shithole I must say I’m surprised at these riots… Seriously, we probably haven’t had anything of this scale in 30 years, and it seems that western Europe (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, etc.) is having these types of riots every year…
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‘As-salamu alaykum dear people. I really cook from the inside, you should know that.” Morad Baddaou from Amsterdam – big, black beard – looks frustrated into the camera of his phone. A video of his hand will appear on TikTok on Sunday evening, which has been viewed almost a hundred thousand times a day later and has generated thousands of approving reactions from Moroccan-Dutch young people. “Why does it have to come to this? Why do we always have to screw up? You give Wilders and his Belgian colleague even more work.”
Baddaou is actually a ritual washer by profession, but on Sunday he will take on the role of digital neighborhood father. “Why can’t you stay home after a game of football or go home quietly?” he exclaims. “How can you be happy that you set your scooters on fire and knock over cars? You are ruining the future of our children, our parents and ourselves. We are not hooligans , we are Muslims. We must lead by example. It must have been enough. Where is your heart?”
After the Moroccan team defeated Belgium 2-0 at the World Cup in Qatar this weekend, unrest broke out in several places. The festive atmosphere around the Rotterdam Kruisplein soon changed. According to the police, a group of about five hundred people seized the party to riot: firecrackers and glass were thrown at police. Police with dogs, police on horseback and riot police charged to push back the crowd. Two officers were (slightly) injured.
Elsewhere, the municipality of The Hague was remarkably well prepared. The fine-meshed network of neighborhood fathers, street coaches and volunteers walking around on the street quickly picked up signals. Nevertheless, disturbances also arose in the Schilderswijk in The Hague and the riot police was deployed to expel the young people.
Why can’t you go home quietly after a game of football?
Flicking cars, scooters and steps
The evening was not much different on Amsterdam’s Mercatorplein, although the police seemed less prepared here, according to a statement that appeared on Monday afternoon: “There was no information before the Belgium-Morocco match that disturbances would arise regardless of the result.” And so on Sunday evening fireworks bombs flew around, shared scooters caught fire and an electric shared car exploded in the middle of the busy intersection. The fire continued to burn for at least an hour, as rioters continued to throw whatever was at hand — lamp oil, road signs — on the fire. The owner of a tobacconist near the burning car closed his business after passers-by fled to his shop when a fireworks bomb exploded. The other businesses also closed their doors prematurely.
The next morning, Monday, peace had returned to Mercatorplein. Other than a charred black scar from a burnt-down car and an overturned flower box next to the ice cream stand, little reminds of the restless evening.
But things are rumbling in the Moroccan-Dutch community. Shopkeepers on Mercatorplein are wary when asked about the events. They weigh their words carefully. Opinions are also divided on social media and discussions are heated. Did a small group of Moroccan-Dutch young people ruin it for the rest of the community? Or did a receptacle of rioters hijack the revelry?
Geert Wilders devoted at least nine messages to the riots within 24 hours, such as: “Criminal scum now out of the country.” Minister Yesilgöz (Justice and Security, VVD) posted an outraged tweet. “Riotists, really, shame on you.”
Little is known about the background and motives of the rioters on Mercatorplein. One arrest was made on the night itself. However, there are many camera images and the police say several arrests “cannot be ruled out”.
A bad name
“Here, I will show you this video,” says a 24-year-old boy on Monday morning who does not want his name in NRC . In the video, which takes place in a building near Mercatorplein, a Moroccan-Dutch boy addresses a blond man of about 35 years old. “I told you: better not do it,” says the boy. “Because who gets a bad name? The Moroccans! I assume you are not Moroccan. If you start urging little boys to do bad, of course we’ll get a bad name bro.”
“This is an action of decisiveness,” responds the blond man. “We are all against the system.” The Moroccan-Dutch youngster reacts frustrated: “Today we have not come to fight against the system.”
Curfew riots
“It’s like with the curfew riots,” says the boy who showed the video. “Hooligans come here and then it is said that they were all Moroccans. They certainly were there, in the beginning the mood was still cheerful, there was dancing. But suddenly it turned.”
The boy was working in his own business on the square on Sunday evening and had to close its doors due to the unrest. “If I go to the supermarket here later, I will be seen as that Moroccan, while I have nothing to do with it. I am really sorry that this is happening.”
The Amsterdam security triangle of mayor, police and Public Prosecution Service has announced that it will study the commitment to Morocco against Canada next Thursday. In Rotterdam, the police will immediately scale up where necessary. In The Hague, several parties are calling for additional measures, but the municipality has informed Omroep West that it does not expect any new unrest in view of the competition.
He is not wrong.
Also strong message from the person, we need more people like him
A more nuanced article, as opposed to all the click-bait titles that have been posted about this. Turns out it was a mix of hooligans and people that just wanted to fight with the police, from a diverse set of background, not just Moroccan.
Moreover, these riots have been harshly criticised by the Dutch-Moroccan community at large.
Deport the cunts.
As someone from Eastern European shithole I must say I’m surprised at these riots… Seriously, we probably haven’t had anything of this scale in 30 years, and it seems that western Europe (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, etc.) is having these types of riots every year…