Monday, May 3, 2021 at 13:28• Last update: 13:46

Outgoing care minister Hugo de Jonge believes that Ajax should have shown more ‘social responsibility’ around the title party that took place on Sunday. After the match against FC Emmen (4-0 victory), thousands of supporters gathered under the parking deck of the Johan Cruijff ArenA, where the selection and staff eventually appeared with the scale. The fact that no fans were welcome in the stadium, De Jong finds no ‘justification for letting go of the rules’.

De Jong leaves to it ANP know that as a Rotterdammer he watches Ajax’s title party ‘with very little glee anyway’. “But now completely. I think it is good to realize that we still have to obey the rules for a long time. We really have to be disciplined for a while, ”says De Jonge. In the previous round of play, a limited public was allowed in the Eredivisie stadiums, but the cabinet decided that this was not allowed last weekend.

De Jonge therefore does not agree with the criticism that the public should have been admitted to the stadium. “That is no justification for letting go of the rules and turning it into a party outside,” says the outgoing care minister. The municipality of Amsterdam announced on Sunday that it was a spontaneous action and that no action was taken to ‘prevent disturbances and escalation of violence’.

Valentijn Driessen spoke in his column The Telegraph from ‘a middle finger to the corona victims, medical care, police, catering, zoos, amusement parks, enforcers who have to throw people on a receipt for 95 euros, politics and all people who do respect the rules’. “And let’s not forget to the majority of the Ajax supporters, who behaved themselves and did not rattle at the gates of the Johan Cruijff ArenA.”