AMSTERDAM -- Riot police broke up crowds of youths who turned violent
in a tiny Dutch town late on Friday after several thousand people
descended on the community after a schoolgirl's Facebook invitation to
her sixteenth birthday party went viral.
Media reports said six people were hurt, including three seriously, after disturbances broke out in the quiet northern Dutch town of Haren. Reports said shops were vandalized and looted, a car set on fire and street signs and lampposts damaged before police broke up the crowds.
Up
to 600 riot police were on the scene during the disturbances, according
to one media report. There were at least 20 arrests, media said.
Pictures from the scene showed party-goers wearing T-shirts with "Project X" written on them -- apparently a reference to the movie "Project X", in which three high school seniors throw a party that gets out of control as word spreads.
Some 30,000 people received the invitation from a girl announcing her birthday party on Facebook, according to media reports. The party was intended to be a small-scale celebration, but the girl did not set her Facebook event to private and the invitation went viral.
"She posted the invitation on Facebook and sent it to friends, who then sent it to other friends and soon it spread like wildfire across the Internet," Melanie Zwama, Groningen police spokeswoman told the AFP news agency according to the BBC.
A Twitter account was set up to promote the event, and the Dutch Daily News identified a video posted on YouTube that also promoted the party.
Dutch DJs Yellow Claw and Afrojack -- who each have thousands of Twitter followers -- posted messages about the party on their accounts (in Dutch).
Media reports said six people were hurt, including three seriously, after disturbances broke out in the quiet northern Dutch town of Haren. Reports said shops were vandalized and looted, a car set on fire and street signs and lampposts damaged before police broke up the crowds.
Hundreds
of youths gather in Haren, northern Netherlands, on Friday. Dutch
mass-market daily De Telegraaf reported that tens of thousands of people
received a Facebook invitation to a schoolgirl's birthday party.
Pictures from the scene showed party-goers wearing T-shirts with "Project X" written on them -- apparently a reference to the movie "Project X", in which three high school seniors throw a party that gets out of control as word spreads.
Some 30,000 people received the invitation from a girl announcing her birthday party on Facebook, according to media reports. The party was intended to be a small-scale celebration, but the girl did not set her Facebook event to private and the invitation went viral.
Chairs
burn in the northern Dutch town of Haren late on Friday after thousands
of party-goers showed up to a teenager's birthday party.
"She posted the invitation on Facebook and sent it to friends, who then sent it to other friends and soon it spread like wildfire across the Internet," Melanie Zwama, Groningen police spokeswoman told the AFP news agency according to the BBC.
A Twitter account was set up to promote the event, and the Dutch Daily News identified a video posted on YouTube that also promoted the party.
Dutch DJs Yellow Claw and Afrojack -- who each have thousands of Twitter followers -- posted messages about the party on their accounts (in Dutch).
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