A criminal network is behind the fireworks attacks against the police in Amsterdam’s Floradorp neighborhood on New Year’s Eve, National Police Chief Janny Knol said in the television program Pauw de Wit.

On New Year’s Eve, the police intervened multiple times after groups set fires on Dotterbloemstraat in the Floradorp neighborhood. Riot police had to disperse crowds so that firefighters could extinguish the fires. During these confrontations, people in the crowds pelted officers with fireworks. The unrest followed tension in Floradorp after Mayor Femke Halsema banned the city’s annual bonfire due to safety concerns.

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      3 months ago

      The violent organisation will never be able to arrest because it doesn’t exist

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        What do you mean with that? Are they lying? Why are they lying? Why can’t they arrest them? If not a criminal organisation, than what? Who should they arrest?

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          They arrested 250 perpetrators, but they want to go after their leaders, and those who orchestrated the assaults. Smells imo all too weird, so possibly there is a certain " foreign actor" involved, but idk.

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            250 were arrested on count of vandalism in New Year’s Eve but none in relation to the event described here

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          It look a lot to me like a chief of police accusing AntiFa of being a centralized organization.

          They probably don’t have any lead and are in search of a patsy to take the fall of their probably shit handling of the situation.

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    “As far as I’m concerned, it’s a criminal network.”

    is not

    Criminal network behind New Year’s fireworks attacks on cops in Amsterdam: Police chief