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Parliamentary question - P-002484/2024Parliamentary question
P-002484/2024

Urgent action following the pogrom in Amsterdam on 7 November 2024

8.11.2024

Priority question for written answer  P-002484/2024
to the Commission
Rule 144
Alice Teodorescu Måwe (PPE)

On 7 November, hundreds of Jewish football supporters were attacked in Amsterdam by masked mobs. The pogrom, which occurred two days before the anniversary of ‘Kristallnacht’, or the ‘Night of Broken Glass’, and was filmed by the mobs, has been roundly condemned by, among others, Prime Minister Dick Schoof, Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema and King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, who stated that the country betrayed its Jewish inhabitants during World War II and betrayed them again on 7 November.

Meanwhile, there have been media reports that some elements in the police force in the Netherlands are refusing to protect Jewish targets, citing ‘moral dilemmas’.[1]

Accordingly, in view of the pogrom in Amsterdam and reports that elements in the police force in the Netherlands are refusing to protect Jewish targets against similar attacks:

Submitted: 8.11.2024

Last updated: 12 November 2024
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