thousands of youths poured in and around 9:00 p.m. In the morning and afternoon a few hundred people had traveled to Haren, but the number of visitors appeared to be diminishing towards the beginning of the evening. 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. Rob Bats, mayor of Haren at the time, and the municipal council decided not to organise a party to accommodate the visitors and called on people not to come to Haren. Riot control walking along the debris-filled streetsĪs a precaution, the girl and her family were moved to an undisclosed location and the neighbourhood was closed off on 21 September. On the 21st alone, around 400,000 tweets were sent regarding Project X Haren. Between 19 and 21 September, the expected attendance grew from 8,000 to 30,000. Local entrepreneurs took advantage of the situation and organised afterparties in Groningen. Fifty-five thousand people had been invited, and 6,000 of them accepted. By then, the rumours had spread to the national media. On 18 September, the municipality of Haren and the local police force agreed to act strongly if the party escalated. This letter quickly appeared on the internet. On 14 September, the girl's parents distributed a letter in their neighborhood to warn residents of their rising concerns. Within a week, 24,000 people were invited and 2,400 had accepted. Īfter the invitation, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other weblogs and internet forums were quickly filled with conversations regarding Project X. The father of the birthday girl asked the two men to cancel the event, but they did not comply.
The 21-year-old claims he accepted the request from a Dutch person to host the Facebook event. 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". Project X is a reference to the 2012 film Project X, directed by Nima Nourizadeh. 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 she lived), and Project X Haren. The girl then deleted the event after consulting her parents. In just two days, 16,000 people were invited. Through the notorious snowball effect thousands of people were added to that number in a matter of days. One of her friends' friends misused the invitation and invited 500 people himself. This way, the girl hoped to obtain a head count. She deliberately chose the option 'public', so that her friends could bring other friends. On 6 September 2012, Merthe Weusthuis, a 15-year-old girl from Haren sent 78 friends a public invitation to her 16th birthday via the social network site Facebook.
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