A group of young people aged 15 and 16 were attacked and assaulted in Eindhoven on Friday evening by PEC Zwolle hooligans wearing balaclavas, reports Broadcasting Brabant. The young people were playing a game of football for fun when suddenly a group of about ten to fifteen furious PEC supporters passed by. They were angry after their club’s 4-2 loss against FC Eindhoven.
After the match in the Kitchen Champion Division, about forty away fans of PEC sought confrontation with the police. Part of that group then went to a nearby hockey field, where children were playing football. “They were clearly on the warpath, because they wore balaclavas and some of them had a steel bar with them,” a mother of one of the victims tells Broadcasting Brabant. “One of the children was hit in the neck with that.”
The victims did not know what they were experiencing. “The boys play football here almost every night, but I’ve never experienced this before.” The police managed to direct the rioters to the supporters bus and eventually get them inside. That certainly did not happen automatically, because the police were attacked with stones, street furniture and full cans of beer.
The police struck with batons. A police dog bit a PEC fan in the leg, after which fellow supporters managed to free him again. The bitten supporter managed to escape, but the police did make one arrest. An investigation is underway to identify those responsible. The parents of the abused children have filed a report.
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