Johan Derksen catches up on Monday evening Veronica Inside hard out to Sandrina Hadderingh. The editor-in-chief of Omroep Gelderland has decided to stop sending reporters to football matches after a journalist from the broadcaster was attacked by a NEC supporter on Sunday. Derksen doesn’t understand that decision at all.
After the match between NEC and Vitesse (0-1) riots broke out outside the Goffert Stadium. A journalist from Omroep Gelderland was hit by an angry fan on a scooter. “It’s very bitter, but we will stay away from football matches from now on,” Hadderingh said on Monday. “It is impossible to report events outside the stadium. We are considering reporting and will certainly report to Persveilig.”
According to Hadderingh, her decision is not only based on the incident in Nijmegen. “It seems that threats are part of our profession, but that is of course nonsense. Our people must be able to do their work safely and that is no longer possible in many places today. We have already experienced several incidents at protests and football matches and we are going no longer expose our people to it.”
Derksen lashes out hard at Hadderingh in a reaction. “That lady flirts with the fact that she has been in journalism for thirty years. Well, I am fifty years old, but that does not mean that I do not say stupid things. But they do not exist more stupid than Mrs. Hadderingh. There was a supporter with a hood on a scooter over the foot of a journalist from Omroep Gelderland She has now decided that she no longer sends her journalists and cameramen there, because she cannot guarantee safety… Then I think: Mrs. Hadderingh, wake up, bitch you are. What do you think of the current affairs columns, which send camera teams and reporters to all war zones of the world?
Derksen seems to downplay the incident. “A NEC supporter has run over a reporter’s foot! It’s a shame, we will never film there again! Even if there are protest demonstrations, she will no longer film … I would say as Council van Commissarissen: ‘Mrs Hadderingh, go and find another job, with your drivel.'”