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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. The event was unprecedented in the Netherlands, but in June 2011, a German girl 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. ==Events before 21 September== On 6 September 2012, a 15-year-old girl from Haren sent 78 friends a public invitation to her 16th birthday via the social network site Facebook. She deliberately chose the option 'public', so that her friends could bring other friends. This way, the girl hoped to obtain a head count. One of her friends' friends misused the invitation and invited 500 people himself. Through the notorious snowball effect thousands of people were added to that number in a matter of days. In just two days, 16.000 people were invited. The girl then deleted the event after consulting her parents. However, others took command and quickly Twitter and Facebook were filled with terms like Project X Merthe (the name of the girl), Project X Stationsweg (the street where the girl lived) and Project X Haren〔(Feestje Merthe werd 'gekaapt' ), AD.nl, 8 maart 2013〕 Project X is a reference to the 2012 film Project X directed by Nima Nourizadeh. Project X Haren was run by a 21-year-old man from Christchurch, New Zealand and an unknown individual from Berlin calling himself "Ibe Der Fuhrer". The 21-year-old man claims he accepted the request from a Dutch person to host the Facebook event. The father of the birthday girl asked the two men to cancel the event, but they did not comply.〔('Project X Haren leek me een leuke grap'. Hoe een winkelbediende uit Nieuw-Zeeland duizenden jongeren naar Haren kreeg ), Joop.nl, 26 september 2012〕〔(Interview: Jesse Hobson verwacht politie: ‘Ik heb Project X Haren alleen gefaciliteerd’ ), Harener Weekblad, 25 september 2012〕 After the invitation Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other weblogs and internet forums were quickly filled with conversations regarding Project X. Within a week, 24.000 people were invited and 2.400 had accepted. On 14 September, the girl's parents distributed a letter in their neighborhood to warn residents of the rising concerns. This letter quickly appeared on the internet. On 18 September, the municipality Haren and the local police force agreed to act strongly if the party would escalate. By then, the rumours had spread to the national media. 55.000 people had been invited, 6.000 of them accepted.〔(Meer dan 55.000 uitnodigingen voor Facebookfeestje Groningen ), Trouw.nl, 18 september 2012〕〔(Noodverordening in Haren om Facebookfeestje ), De Stentor, 18 september 2012〕 Local entrepreneurs took advantage of the situation and organised afterparties in Groningen. Between 19 and 21 September, the expected attendance grew from 8.000 to 30.000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Deelnemers aan feest Haren overstijgt 30.000 )〕 On the 21st alone, circa 400.000 Tweets were sent regarding Project X Haren. As a precaution, the girl and the family were moved to an undisclosed location and the neighbourhood was closed off on 21 September. Rob Bats, mayor of Haren at the time, and the municipal council decided not to organise a party to accommodate the visitors and summoned people not to come to Haren.〔(Deelnemers aan feest Haren overstijgt 30.000 ), DvhN, 21 september 2012〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Noodverordening in Haren om Facebookfeestje )〕 A nearby football field was designed as a shelter in case of attendance overload and the local police conversed with German police because an equivalent Project X event had earlier taken place there.〔(Hoe Project X-feesten eerder uit de hand liepen ), NRC, 21 september 2012〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Project X Haren」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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