The preview of the match that Milan beat Dinamo Zagreb 3-1 Champions League was surrounded by controversy after the broadcast of videos of the fans of the Croatian team doing the Nazi salute on the streets of the Italian city when they were heading towards the San Ciro stadium.
The images quickly went viral and show a human tide of fans marching to pure chant and raising a hand in allusion to “Sieg Heil”, which genocide has popularized in Germany. Adolf Hitler.
That wasn’t all. Near the field, a fan was injured with a stab. It is a 39-year-old man who ended up in hospital, even if his conditions were not serious, the Italian agency Agi indicated. The victim was attacked by unidentified people, noting “light scratches”.
According to the Italian authorities, 36 Croatian fans were taken to the police station for “identification”. Of these, 23 are under investigation for various infringements and 20 have received a ban on entering the stadium.
In the morning the police had kidnapped rockets, a stick and several knives after the first checks to the Croatian fans.
However, as the match was being played, it was possible to see how the fans were set fire to fabrics and papers at the top of one of the headings.
It is that security, foreseeing the possibility of unrest or conflict, has placed them quite far from the green grass.
As a safety measure, to avoid too much closeness between the supporters of both clubs, the stands underneath where the Croatian supporters were were left free and the subscribers of these sectors were located in other areas of the Milanista stadium.
In total, almost 4,000 Croatians traveled to Italy to attend the match corresponding to the second date of Group E of the most important club tournament in Europe.
Dinamo, first and unbeaten in the league after the first nine rounds, surprised in the first round of the Champions League by beating Chelsea 1-0. It also caused the English team manager Thomas Tuchel to leave.
In his trip to Milan, this time he couldn’t against Stefano Pioli’s team who won 3-1 with goals from Olivier Giroud, Alexis Saelemaekers and Tommaso Pobega. Mislav Orsic had served.
Nazi salute and incidents in Marseille
Scenes of violence were also experienced on Tuesday in the French city of Marseille. Riot police intervened when visiting Eintracht Frankfurt fans lit rockets and fireworks at each other before the Champions League match began.
Similar events occurred at the end of the match, when the sound of some detonations drowned out the calls for calm that were being made through the stadium speakers.
The group of German fans, numbering around 3,000, remained inside the Velodrome Stadium long after their team had won 1-0.
The images also went viral. a fan making an alleged Nazi salutefor which the company issued a statement in which it dissociated itself from the fact.
“Eintracht Frankfurt stands for tolerance and diversity and takes a clear stand in the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination,” he said.
“The club distances itself unequivocally from the isolated incident before a UEFA Champions League match, where one person made a gesture that was intended as a Hitler greeting. Anti-Semitic ideas run counter to the club’s unambiguous and immovable values and its roots, ” they concluded.
Source: Clarin
