Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Crime
Sports
ADO Den Haag
Ajax
charges
football
jungle noises
police
Racism
racist chants
Riechedly Bazoer
Friday, 22 January 2016 - 09:10
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Ajax files case against "racist" ADO Den Haag fans

Ajax is filing charges of racism against the ADO Den Haag fans who made jungle noises and chanted racist slogans at Ajax player Riechedly Bazoer during the match between the two teams in The Hague on Sunday. "We feel that these supporters wen too far and that their actions should be considered criminal", a spokesperson for Ajax said in the Telegraaf. The club is going to the police on Friday or Monday. Ajax is taking the responsibility of filing the charges so that Bazoer can focus on football. "We don't think that we should ask him to play football." the spokesperson said.

Bazoer himself thinks what happened is terrible, but he is not letting it bother him too much. "I see it like this: if I am a good football player, they will try to get me out of the game in this way." he said in an interview on the team's website. "Though what happened is obviously very bad. I don't understand that in the year 2016 there can still be racism in the stadiums. I am disappointed that these chants and weird noises could be heard almost the entire game. But that is now in the past. I received much support from my mother and brother these past days. That gives me strength. I just want to play football."

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • One person found dead after major fire in business premises in Schellinkhout
  • Ajax pick up their first win since October in Heitinga’s debut
  • Philips restructuring: Massive layoffs and recall of sleep apnea devices
  • Police officer injured after being dragged more than 300 meters by car
  • Extinction Rebellion protest: 768 arrests made and 725 activists released
  • League leaders Feyenoord drop points away to FC Twente

Top stories

  • Dutch royal family under fire for “caricature insensitivity”
  • Prime Minister Mark Rutte will speak at Holocaust commemoration
  • A12 open again after Extinction Rebellion protest, more than 500 people arrested
  • Police intervenes Extinction Rebellion protest on A12; Dozens of people arrested
  • Rutte lashes out at left wing parties in election campaign interview
  • Netherlands and the US agree on export restriction of ASML chip machines

© 2012-2023, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content