Dick Schoof cancels COP29 trip to deal with fallout from attacks on Israeli football fans

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Police launched a large-scale investigation after gangs of youths conducted what Amsterdam's mayor called 'hit and run' attacks on fans that were apparently inspired by calls on social media to target Jewish people.

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00:00Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof has cancelled a trip to the COP-29 climate talks in Azerbaijan

00:07to deal with the fallout from assaults on Israeli football fans.

00:11Schoof said the government would discuss the violence on Monday and he would hold talks

00:16on tackling anti-Semitism on Tuesday.

00:19Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar arrived in the Netherlands on Friday and offered Israel's

00:23help in the police investigation.

00:26Schoof said he told Saar that the Dutch government is doing everything it can to ensure that

00:30the Jewish community in our country feels safe.

00:35Violence broke out in Amsterdam on Thursday night after a football match between Ajax

00:39and Maccabee Tel Aviv.

00:41Video showed a large crowd of Israeli fans chanting anti-Arab slogans on their way to

00:46the game.

00:47Gangs of youths then conducted what Amsterdam's mayor called hit-and-run attacks on fans apparently

00:53inspired by calls on social media to target Jewish people.

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