Dutch media reported several incidents after Moroccan fans took to the streets in multiple cities on Thursday night, following their team\u2019s 2-0 loss to France in the World Cup quarterfinal.<\/p>\n
Fans threw glass bottles at the police, prompting anti-riot officers to disperse crowds, according to the daily newspaper\u00a0De Telegraaf<\/a>. In Rotterdam, policemen were pelted with eggs, while in Amsterdam rioters reportedly fired fireworks at law enforcement and behaved aggressively toward journalists.<\/p>\n Ye\u015filg\u00f6z is known for her tough stance on migration. \u201cThere are too many people coming into our country,\u201d she wrote<\/a> on X last year, prior to becoming minister. \u201cThis has to be different. And fast too.\u201d<\/p>\n Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders also weighed in, accusing<\/a> Ye\u015filg\u00f6z\u2019s VVD party \u2014 which is part of the governing coalition, alongside Prime Minister Rob Jetten\u2019s liberal D66 party and the center-right Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) \u2014 of having let \u201cscum\u201d into the country.<\/p>\n This is not the first time disturbances have occurred in the aftermath of a Morocco match. Following Morocco\u2019s victory over the Netherlands in the Round of 32, police in The Hague arrested 13 people<\/a> on suspicion of public violence or disrupting public order. Earlier in the year, after unrest linked to the Africa Cup of Nations final, authorities in The Hague detained a further 14 individuals<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dutch media reported several incidents after Moroccan fans took to the streets in multiple cities on Thursday night,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[629,20011,2037,12906,6,216],"class_list":["post-30155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-netherlands","tag-2026-fifa-world-cup","tag-dutch-politics","tag-geert-wilders","tag-migration","tag-netherlands","tag-the-netherlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}