Eintracht Frankfurt fans burned the streets of Naples!

In the UEFA Champions League round of 16, 8 people were arrested for the acts caused by the fans of the two teams before and after the rematch between the Italian representative Napoli and the German team Eintracht Frankfurt yesterday in Napoli.

The center of the city of Naples became a battlefield with the events before and after the match played yesterday between Napoli and Eintracht Frankfurt, where the local team won 3-0 and advanced to the quarterfinals.

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According to the Italian press, before the match, German fans walked into the city center without permission and then clashed with the police, throwing fireworks, explosives and stones. The events happened.

It was recorded that while the Italian police impeded the Neapolitan fans, the fans threw a large amount of explosives and fireworks.

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DEFINITELY NO TICKET SALE…

It was reported that the German fans were taken to the train station, the airport and the city of Salerno to leave the city, being put on buses accompanied by police vehicles in the early hours of the morning. The governor of Naples, Claudio Palombo, held an extraordinary security meeting in the morning in relation to the events in the city.

At the end of the match, the Naples police chief, Alessandro Giuliano, stated that although no tickets were sold, 470 German fans arrived in Naples for the match and 3 of them were arrested for their responsibility in the events. .

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Giuliano reported that 5 Italians involved in the events were also in custody. Sharing the information that 6 security guards were injured in yesterday’s events, Giuliano also stated that his investigations into the incidents are continuing.

THE FIRST MATCH IN GERMANY HAS ALSO PASSED

When events broke before the match between Napoli and Eintracht Frankfurt on February 21 in Germany, the Italian Ministry of the Interior banned German fans from watching the match in Naples from the stadium, citing public safety reasons.

As a result of the appeal filed before the court of appeal, this prohibition was partially lifted and it was announced that the sale of tickets to residents of Frankfurt and those coming from this city was prohibited, and that the sale of tickets would be made to Germans. fans out of this area.

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin, in a statement to the German press yesterday, described the away ban imposed on Eintracht Frankfurt fans as “unacceptable”. (AA)

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