Project X Haren
2012 riots in Groningen, Netherlands / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Project X Haren was an event that started out as a public invitation to a birthday party by a girl on Facebook, but ended up as a gathering of thousands of youths causing riots on 21 September 2012 in the town of Haren, Groningen, Netherlands.
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Date | 21 September 2012 | ||
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Caused by | Social media-influenced snowball effect | ||
Methods | Rioting, civil disobedience, police violence | ||
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The event was unprecedented in the Netherlands, but in June 2011, a German girl had posted similar birthday invitations on the internet. Hundreds of mostly drunk youths gathered in Hamburg, Germany, causing a great deal of damage and rioting against the police.[2][3]