MPs Want Answers on 'Exaggerated' Villa-Maccabi Match Intelligence

MPs want answers on 'exaggerated' Villa-Maccabi match intelligence

Ministers ask West Midlands Police for more details on Israeli fans' ban at the match on 6 November.

Risk of Maccabi Tel Aviv facing antisemitic attacks not ‘predominant’ reason for match ban, police tell MPs – UK politics live

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Dutch Police: U.K. authorities used false claims to bar Israeli Maccabi fans from match

A report published in The Sunday Times reveals that British West Midlands Police justified barring Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from an Aston Villa match by alleging that Israeli supporters threw people into a river and targeted Muslims in Amsterdam last year. Dutch police say they 'do not recognize the claim'

Ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans for Aston Villa game 'based on false hooligan claims'

West Midlands Police has defended the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending an Aston Villa match after it was claimed that false intelligence was used.

Police defend banning Israeli fans from Aston Villa match after claims it was based on false intelligence

Police have defended the decision to ban fans of an Israeli football team from attending an away game in Birmingham after the Dutch national force reportedly claimed the move was based on false intelligence.