About 60 Lazio fans detained with weapons ahead of Europa League game in Hamburg

Lazio said in a assertion that the fans held in a single day were banned from attending Wednesday’s game nonetheless that there were no arrests.

Hindustan Times

26 September, 2024, 06:00 pm

Final modified: 26 September, 2024, 06:00 pm

About 60 Lazio fans detained with weapons forward of Europa League game in Hamburg

A neighborhood of about 60 Lazio fans were stopped by German authorities after trying to steer clear of a police escort forward of a Europa League game against Dynamo Kyiv and were discovered to be carrying knives, golf equipment and other weapons, police said Wednesday.

Lazio said in a assertion that the fans held in a single day were banned from attending Wednesday’s game nonetheless that there were no arrests.

Dynamo Kyiv is taking half in its home video games in Hamburg thanks to the battle in Ukraine.

Lazio supporters fill a lengthy historic previous of making anguish and the membership has been hit with a mountainous collection of sanctions each in Serie A and Europe.

Sooner than a Champions League game against Bayern Munich in March, one Italian amongst about 100 Lazio soccer supporters who sang fascist songs within the beer hall the save Adolf Hitler based the Nazi occasion was arrested and fined for giving a Hitler salute.

A year earlier, a fan wearing a shirt with a reference to Hitler was banned for life from attending Lazio matches by the Roman membership. Authorities reviewed security camera photos from all the blueprint in which by blueprint of the Stadio Olimpico after photos of the fan wearing a Lazio shirt with the title “Hitlerson” and the No. 88 — which is a numerical code for “Heil Hitler” — circulated on social media.

Also in 2022-23, Lazio was ordered to play a Serie A game with section of the Olimpico closed to spectators after fans directed racist chants at opposing gamers.