Football club Legia Warsaw has published a video on Youtube showing the backstage of the match against the Dutch team AZ Alkmaar and the scandalous treatment of the Polish team and the Polish delegation by the Dutch.
“We will not leave this matter. Those responsible for the unlawful actions of the Dutch police and other services, especially in the city of Alkmaar, must face the consequences – including criminal liability”, announced Deputy Foreign Minister Paweł Jabłoński on Wednesday 11 October, in the social network X.
The deputy head of Polish diplomacy stressed that “there is no consent to discrimination against our citizens. This is a violation of the Polish Constitution, the Constitution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the Treaty on European Union. We count on the cooperation of the competent authorities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in this matter. The clarification of this case and punishment of the guilty is essential for good relations between our countries”, noted Paweł Jabłoński.
Legia Warsaw, as announced, seeks to clarify and punish the culprits of last week’s events in the Dutch city of Alkmaar, where after the match against AZ there, the police detained two players of the Polish team and violated the integrity of Legia’s president Dariusz Mioduski, who was hit in the face, as well as members of the staff and guests of the Warsaw club.
“I am Dutch, and I was at the AZ Alkmaar – Legia match. People didn’t know who I was, and I heard them talking badly about the Poles. They treated them like workers. I felt some kind of discrimination. From the moment we arrived in the city, you could sense a kind of stress”, says Rinke Rooyens, a well-known TV producer, in a video published on Legia’s social media channels (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCO8JhMYa6w)
Polish MEP Andrzej Halicki was also at the match and said that the game would become history “because of the way the guests were treated and the aggression that he had never encountered before”. He added that Alkmaar mayor Anja Schouten’s public statements about Poles and “harassing them just for being from Poland cannot go unanswered by the law”.
Adrian Andrzejewski