Project X Haren

Project X Haren
Project X Haren
Part of the Project X phenomenon
	One of the promotional flyers for the event
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 tens 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.

In 2025, the events inspired a Netflix documentary called Trainwreck: The Real Project X.