During the preparation of EURO 2000, the European Football Championships in The Netherlands and Belgium, safety plays a big role. There is fear of the activities of the different hard core hooligan groups, especially in combination with the liberal Dutch culture, were soft and hard drugs are easily available and the police is not known to be very vigorous.
Europe correspondent Daniel Hanimann from the Swiss public TV broadcaster Schweizer Fernsehen travles to the Netherlands for filming for a reportage for the program ’10 vor 10’. He meets and interviews Dutch hooligans, interviews Hooliganism specialists and has a look at the measures taken in the stadium of football club Feyenoord Rotterdam. The stadium where the final of Euro 2000 will take place.
For this reportage Featurez gave advice, did the research, set-up and planning and accompanied the filming.