Steven Berghuis has reported the violent online abuse and death threats he has been receiving after his move from Feyenoord to rivals Ajax earlier this summer.
The Netherlands international and his family, including his wife and children, have been threatened with social media messages spanning 19 pages, the Telegraaf reports via Dutch News.
In his letter to the police, Berghuis has labelled the hateful messages he has received as ‘very threatening’ in his letter to the police while Ajax’s director Edwin van der Sar believes that a ‘boundary has been crossed’.
“Jews always run away”
Despicable daubing after Steven Berghuis moved from @Feyenoord for @AFCAjax, including a portrait of him with an enlarged nose, a kippah and a concentration camp prison shirt with a yellow Jewish star.
Europe 2021.@CIDI_nieuws https://t.co/ZtRu3RfoB4
— Jack Mendel 🗞️ (@Mendelpol) August 9, 2021
Feyenoord has previously urged its supporters to avoid posting threats to their former club captain as the 29-year-old sealed his move to Ajax in July for an initial €4 million.
The Rotterdam side even highlighted a picture that was shared on social media which inclined that Berghuis deserved the same fate as Peter R. de Vries, a photographer that was shot dead in the Dutch capital a few weeks ago.