Brussels Riots - Belgium Football Fans Turn Violent After Defeat To Morocco

[Celerity]

Police had to seal off parts of the center of Brussels, deploy water cannons and fire tear gas to disperse crowds following violence during and after Morocco’s 2-0 upset win over Belgium at the World Cup.

[DFW]

3. Not here in Europe.

Here, soccer is the main substitute for religion.

[DFW]

2. I talked to one of my Belgian friends this morning

His sister has a Moroccan boyfriend, and he warned before the match that the Moroccans (huge minority in the Brussels area) would tear up the city if they lost OR if they won. Only if there was a tie did the city have half a chance of surviving without a riot. Well, there was no tie, and there WAS a riot.

[Dorian Gray]

4. So

the minority population is being blamed for the riots? Not the white people of belgium?

[elias7]

5. You could read the articles and look at footage yourself. Not the white people of Belgium.

[DFW]

6. The participants are presumably being blamed for the riots. I only saw the OP, then called Brussels

The prediction I cited was made by one single Moroccan, not the news or a politician, or even a Belgian, and it was made before the game. He turned out to be correct. No more, no less. One Moroccan--not the media, not the parliament, and he wasn't assigning blame. He just made a prediction. If you want to put words in his mouth, I'd be happy to try to get his name and phone number for you.

The OP provided film coverage, for what that's worth. The Belgian flag and the Moroccan flag are not similar, but that is about as distinguishing as I could see.

[Liberal In Texas]

8. Yep, a lot of rioters are waving around large Moroccan flags.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

17. One Morroccan, one Twitter, one second to analyze, a lifetime of shamefully being wrong.

Until the next Twitter! What a wonderful thing, that Twitter is, right?

P.s. entirely agree with ur fulsomeness on the subject.

[Demsrule86]

16. So you are blaming the minority population for the riots?

Seriously.

[Ace Rothstein]

19. You can watch the videos and see what flag the rioters were carrying and wearing.

Seriously.

[AllyCat]

7. WTH?

[stopdiggin]

9. so - I'm really happy

and I have an overwhelming desire to burn, loot and destroy ..

People are strange (I think there are lyrics .. )

[IronLionZion]

10. Seems a bit pointless

there are better ways to celebrate.

[chowder66]

11. Sports is where some men express or get out their emotions.

My neighbor went ballistic after a Super Bowl game. He screamed his head off and banged around his apartment while his friends were over. When I saw him the next day he apologized. I didn't have to say a word when he did that. At least he was situationally aware. He still whoops and yells but it's never gotten as out of hand as it did that one time.

When it leads to violence, it tells me these are the people who do not have coping skills and need therapy. Lots and lots of therapy.

[Victor_c3]

18. Sort of like people who throw and break things out of anger

I never understood that. You’re angry about a phone call, so you smash your phone. Now you’ve got two things to be angry about - your phone call and the phone you just broke.

My ex wife turned violent like that. Not only would she smash up things around the house, but she destroyed the relationships with those she presumably wanted to maintain relationships with.

[chowder66]

21. Yes...similar to what I'm saying but at least she wasn't turning over cars, throwing punches and

setting other peoples stuff on fire. You make a good point about being mad once then again because of ones own action/reaction.

I'm sorry you had to go through that.

[Goodheart]

12. All for the stupefying human activity we call "soccer"

Obviously, the point of World Cup soccer is to determine which of the two competing teams represents the superior society... because it surely can't be for sports entertainment value.

[malaise]

13. The rest of us call it football

That is all

[70sEraVet]

14. Good lord. The next world war may be fought because of the results of a sports game.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

15. What we need is to allow fans to buy beer in the stands!! What were they thinking, that

Euros drunk on hops might get violent…when that ever happen??

[sarisataka]

20. Tsk, tsk

Thank the holy dog nothing like that ever happens in the US






Just kidding-