Overview

• Mayor Femke Halsema designated Museumplein and parts of the center as security risk areas from 09:00 to 19:00, enabling preventive searches and a ban on face coverings tied to public-order concerns.
• The anti-immigration event, relocated from Dam Square to Museumplein, featured a stage program before a march around Vondelpark under tight police escort.
• Police deployed large units including riot squads, horses, dogs, and two water cannons, and set up a screening ‘sluice’ at Amsterdam Centraal where early arrests were made for offenses such as prohibited weapons and face covering.
• After the rally ended, groups moved through the center, set off heavy fireworks, and caused damage; officers contained a group on Prinsengracht, contributing to 29 arrests for public-order offenses, vandalism, and insult.
• A separate anti-fascism demonstration drew several hundred people at Jonas Daniël Meijerplein and dispersed without major incidents, according to on-scene reporting.