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Originally Posted by Beautiful Plateau
"Snoop Dogg has been banned from a free festival in the Netherlands after police said they wanted to guarantee its 'open and friendly character'."
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Bit of a strange one, this. Until now, the city of Den Haag has refused to give any comments on this, other than that brief press statement about maintaining the "open and friendly character" . That makes me nearly 100% sure that they're affraid of riots/hooligans.
Last summer a free beach party in Hoek van Holland (near Rotterdam and Den Haag) ended in mass-riots instigated by football hooligans, which caused a massive chaos and left one person dead. Ever since then a lot of free events especially in Rotterdam (festivals, street dance parade) have either been banned completely or been subjected to insane security measurements.
Parkpop is a free event and attracts crowds up to 400,000 people. I reckon police must've gotten some info about hooligans planning riots or whatever, which spoils everything for the rest of the people. Cunts.