West Midlands Police has defended the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending an Aston Villa match after it was claimed that false intelligence was used.
Supporters of the Israeli club were barred from the Europa League fixture at Villa Park on 6 November.
West Midlands Police chief superintendent Tom Joyce told Sky News before the game that a "section" of Maccabi's fanbase engaged in "quite significant levels of hooliganism".
According to The Sunday Times, West Midlands Police claimed in a confidential dossier that when Maccabi played Ajax in Amsterdam last year, Israeli fans threw "innocent members of the public into the river", and added that between 500 and 600 supporters had "intentionally targeted Muslim communities".
The report also said 5,000 Dutch police officers had been deployed in response.
However, the Netherlands' national police force has questioned the claims, reportedly describing information cited by its British officers as "not true" and in some instances obviously inaccurate.
Sebastiaan Meijer, a spokesman for the Amsterdam division, told The Sunday Times that he was "surprised" by allegations in the West Midlands Police report, which had linked 200 travelling supporters to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF).
Mr Meijer denied that his force had such intelligence, adding that the claim was meaningless given the country had a policy of conscription.
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