Project X Haren

Project X Haren
Project X Haren
Part of the Project X phenomenon
Date	21 September 2012
Location	Haren, Groningen, Netherlands
Caused by	Social media-influenced snowball effect
Methods	Rioting, civil disobedience, police violence
Parties
Party-goers	Netherlands Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations National Police Corps; ;
Lead figures
	Non-centralized leadership Beatrix ; (Monarch of the Netherlands); Mark Rutte ; (Prime Minister of the Netherlands); Liesbeth Spies (Minister of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations); Max van den Berg; (Queen's Commissioner of Groningen); Rob Bats ; (Mayor of Haren); Peter Rehwinkel ; (Mayor of Groningen); John Jorritsma ; (Queen's Commissioner of Friesland); Jacques Tichelaar ; (Queen's Commissioner of Drenthe)
Casualties and losses
21 wounded, 15 arrests	15 wounded

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.

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]

^ ^a ^b "Vijf jaar na Project X Haren, hoe kon het zo mis gaan?". nos.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 25 May 2020.
^ "Stichtag - 3. Juni 2011: Gästeansturm bei Hamburger Facebook-Party". 3 June 2016.
^ "Facebook users crash 'public' birthday party in Hamburg | DW | 04.06.2011".

[nos-1] "Vijf jaar na Project X Haren, hoe kon het zo mis gaan?". nos.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 25 May 2020.

[2] "Stichtag - 3. Juni 2011: Gästeansturm bei Hamburger Facebook-Party". 3 June 2016.

[3] "Facebook users crash 'public' birthday party in Hamburg | DW | 04.06.2011".

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