Battle of Beverwijk

A platoon of police mobile units was deployed to the Beverwijk Bazaar nonetheless, to protect the crowd from a potential hazard.

was convicted due to Carlo Picornie's death, namely 21-year-old Leonardo Pansier,[6] who was given an unconditional prison sentence of 5 years.

[7] In 2009, Leonardo Pansier was invited as a guest on the TV show Sophie op 3 of BNN where he revealed that he felt betrayed by members of his own hooligan group.

The stories that made the rounds regarding several people who were involved in those incidents during the court process failed to include those who executed the final blow.

Multiple witnesses at the scene had reported to have seen Leonardo enraged with a bicycle lock beating on Carlo's head.

However the footage from the camera was deemed as insufficient because it was of poor quality and did not capture a lot of what had actually happened along the motorway.

Carlo Picornie was born 15 October 1961 and due to his age was no longer considered an active member of the hard core of the F-Side.

But Picornie wanted to set an example for the young emerging hooligans at Ajax and attended the Battle in Beverwijk.

Following the funeral of Picornie, in which Ajax chairman Michael van Praag was in attendance, unrest began amongst the F-Side hooligans.

During the TV show "De Harde Kern" from 1998 with host Bas van Hout, which focused on the hooligan groups of the biggest clubs of the Netherlands, Bas van Hout interviewed two masked members of the Feyenoord hooligan group who offered some information over the events that occurred in Beverwijk.

Even though the meeting and intention had been declared as premeditated, with an example of both hooligan groups being delivered due to their previous encounter along A10.

Events such as this one along with other incidents are also regarded as contributing factors in the battle of Beverwijk, for which Carlo Picornie paid with his life.

During the broadcast of the show Sophie op 3 it became clear that the death of Picornie had caused great unrest in the S.C.F.

The three Feyenoord hooligans who were guests on the show reported that those truly responsible for the death of Picornie could no longer live in Rotterdam, and that they themselves had already left the city, out of fear for revenge from fellow members.

The only person who was eventually convicted of the murder of Picornie stated in the broadcast that: "His life had changed to a peaceful one due to the events he had experienced in Beverwijk, although he would remain a hooligan" The definite responsible for Picornies death never became clear, as Leonardo Pansier kept denying his involvement in the murder.