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Haren is a very calm and green and peaceful place.
We don't have tourists, uh, here in Haren,
and that's, uh, what we like.
Normally, there's nothing happening.
Apart from that one particular day.
Let's be clear. There is no party here.
Fuck off.
We're gonna do this real movie in real life.
Where is the party? The party is here!
People just went berserk.
She was the new girl. She didn't know anybody.
Merthe was a lot of fun to hang out with.
I was chilling out in between classes.
Suddenly, I got texts, messages on my phone,
"What a really good idea."
And then it went rolling and rolling.
I was the first elected night mayor of Groningen.
And I was responsible for all the nightlife in the city.
Organizing festivals.
Dealing with bars, with problems.
In the Netherlands, it looks very liberal,
but there's also a lot of structure, a lot of rules in the background.
We have a city council, but after five o'clock, they go home,
and I come in.
I was on Facebook, and I saw this event coming up.
It was a little weird because it was an event in Haren.
It's a little bit of a boring town. Nothing is happening there.
Only some rich kids living there.
But then I started to receive phone calls from residents.
They had a bad feeling there was something not really right.
In fact, I was a member of city council on the opposite side of the mayor.
They were used to dealing with lampposts, crossings.
So they were not taking it serious.
I was listening to the radio in the car,
and, suddenly, they were talking about Project X.
Merthe speaking.
It's Timor and Coen from 3FM.
- Hi. - Hi.
The party's coming up?
The party is definitely canceled.
You could've had 6,000 presents.
That'd be great, but it wouldn't cover the cost of a new house.
By the way, am I live on the radio right now?
- Yes! - Yes! 3FM! Merthe!
Then it went huge in the national media.
The town of Haren is getting ready for the arrival
of thousands of unwanted partygoers.
50,000 invitations have now been sent via the internet.
Residents on the Stationsweg in Haren are worried.
I had a very nasty feeling.
Uh, we are just not ready to host all these people.
The day before the party, I was getting more and more nervous.
I was thinking this is not a place
where you wanna host a few thousand people.
It's gonna be very, very dangerous.
If the council doesn't take it seriously, I had to come up with a plan.
The only solution was to organize an alternative party outside of Haren.
I said to the city council, "I don't wanna make a penny on this."
So they were like, "Oh, this may be a good idea."
"Can you work that out for us?"
Normally, it takes months to organize a very big party.
We only had like 24 hours to organize this.
I sent a plan.
But Mayor Bats had the final say,
and I was really praying that he was making the right choice.
I have a very clear message. This party is canceled.
Just so everyone is clear, there is no party here.
I received a call from the city council.
Uh, the mayor decided to not do this alternative party
but just work with police.
They were very stupid, and they were naive.
There was no music, there was no stage, there was nothing.
And if you don't provide these things,
the kids will find ways to have a good time.
It was a-- a David and Goliath situation.
Why did you decide to get the train here to Haren?
Uh, just out of curiosity, really.
It'll be an experience to see something like this.
Still quiet at Merthe's. We'll ring the doorbell.
Good afternoon.
No cameras.
Her father has had enough of this.
Just two more hours, and the party starts in Haren
for 16-year-old Merthe.
The man next to me now, police spokesman Paul Heidanus,
stands here with a cautious smile.
Mr. Heidanus, I understand you have 300 police officers on standby?
I won't say anything about the measures we have taken.
But let it be clear, we know what we're doing.
My shift ended, so I left.
The vibes was nice.
I saw people having fun.
Chaos.
This is absolutely crazy.
I've never known someone who had so many friends.
Project X Haren can start, we are here!
Where is the party? The party is here!
Where is the party?
Arnoud?
Hey, guys, what are you doing here?
Good vibes, motherfucker!
A Facebook party attracts strange people from all over the country.
I've just been showered in whiskey.
- I think it's time to move on from here. - Good, Arnoud Bodde. Thank you.
We are now in Merthe's street, and it's madness.
And we have only ten officers.
I opened up my Twitter. I saw them start to throw bottles.
The police have fired a warning shot.
Now it's really getting out of hand.
Fuck, it's getting crazy now.
It was the police that provoked this.
This is fucking bizarre.
How long will the police let this go on?
We didn't go to the party.
That's wild.
I saw people bending down a pole.
I saw people...
running through our garden to avoid the police.
Normally, you see it on television, and it's far away,
but now we had it in our front yard.
But that was a wrong decision.
I saw these arms with big tattoos, like, bam, bam!
Without him, I was pretty dead.
Okay, that's it. No more!
What we just experienced was insane.
I was scared to death.
And we say, "We have gold."
"Let's get out of this war zone."
On Twitter, there are rumors
that a girl has been crushed to death,
but there are tweets that say it's not true.
What do you know?
We also read Twitter and have the same information,
but we have not heard this from the police.
It looked like a tornado had hit the town.
And I was walking, and I felt guilty.
I'm sad to be associated with this.
From initial analysis, we are dealing with
what I can only call scum
who, in a violent, well-prepared manner, consciously sought out confrontation.
The rioters have left the people of Haren in shock.
The total cost of the damage is unknown.
All the windows are broken. It's so bad.
We'll have to work hard today to get Haren clean again.
We're still the best community in the Netherlands.
Sorry.
On tonight's show,
what are the consequences of the critical report on Project X Haren
for the mayor and the police chief?
The one time he should have been here and not taken any risks
and just protected the people,
it did not go well.
Things should have gone differently.
Let there be no misunderstanding about that.
And for that, here today, I apologize.
A couple of years after Project X, I was at a party,
and in comes walking Merthe.
And I was like-- I recognized her immediately.
But because of the shame I felt, I didn't say anything.