Ajax v Feyenoord

When asking my friend from the Netherlands what he knew about hooligans. His eyes got as big as they possibly could without popping out of his eye sockets and said, "look up Ajax and Feyenoord. That was some crazy stuff." The more and more I read about hooliganism, the more I get blown away by the stories that I read.
In the 1990s, there was political and public concern about firms of Ajax and Feyenoord. Neither team has a good feeling for one another and things were brutal. It all started in 1989 when two Feyenoord hooligans threw two homemade bombs on to the field of play. The bomb contained fireworks and bullets. The bombs injured 14 Ajax fans. This resulted in all 500 Feyenoord fans escorted out of the stadium and searched.
This lead to many planned out brawls between the firms of both teams. In 1997, a brawl turned into something much worse. Firms from both teams met in a meadow near A10 motorway. Each brought several hundred men equipped with weapons such as bats, iron bars, knives, and tazzers. After a good amount of time, police arrived at the scene. There were no arrest made but several pieces of evidence were found.
Police also found Carlo Picornie was killed. Carlo was a member of the Ajax firm. He had suffered severe brain injuries during the brawl. How only one person died in a brawl that involved knives, tazzers, and iron bars is beyond me. Only three members of the brawl were sentences to jail time, the longest sentences being five years for murder of Carlo Picornie.
Are you serious? A five year murder sentence. No wonder things like this continue to happen in Europe. I know that laws have since then been made to prevent things like this from happening but c'mon. FIVE YEARS! If the government was serious about ending hooliganism then a major step forward should have been taken. Instead, the man was charged with the equivalent of assault with a deadly weapon here in the US.
The guy should have been given a sentence that included the rest of his life. A strong statement from the government that would have made other hooligans think about their actions before hand. Would it have prevented any other situations from arising? Probably not. But it have helped prevent some as it would have changed the way the some view what they do or their involvement as a whole. Instead, hooliganism lives on. Not as much violence as there once was but there is still violent acts taken out on opposing fan bases.