(AFP) Arranging fruit crates in a market on the western edge of Amsterdam on Thursday, Mohamed Errakil said the Dutch government’s rhetoric a week after the city was shaken by anti-Israeli attacks could encourage discrimination.
“We’re called foreigners, you’re a Moroccan, you’re a Turk. Discrimination is going to build up,” said Errakil, a 51-year-old of Moroccan origin who says he “feels Dutch” and has spent most of his life running a fruit stall in Nieuw West, a neighbourhood with a sizable Muslim population.
In the Dutch parliament a day earlier, far-right MP Geert Wilders said all the violence surrounding last week’s football match between Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel Aviv was perpetrated by Muslims and “for the most part Moroccans.”
