Greece was left reeling Tuesday after a Greek soccer fan was killed in in a single day clashes between rival supporters of AEK Athens and Croatia‘s Dinamo Zagreb forward of a Champions League qualifying match within the capital.
Speaking in regards to the killing of the 29-year-old AEK fan, who was stabbed a number of occasions by Croatian hooligans outdoors AEK’s soccer pitch within the northern Athens suburb of Nea Philadelphia, Citizen Protection Minister Yiannis Economou introduced that seven senior law enforcement officials will instantly be faraway from their positions, in accordance with the state-run AMNA news company.
Economou pressured that it was unacceptable that these hooligans had been permitted to cross the border and make their technique to Athens.
“There could be more removals and transfers of officers following an internal inquiry over the handling of the events to determine responsibility,” he added.
Football governing physique UEFA has postponed the qualifying match between AEK and Dinamo Zagreb.
Meanwhile, the Hellenic Police (ELAS) mentioned a complete of 17 Croatian nationals have been detained at three totally different areas throughout the nation for his or her alleged involvement within the clashes with AEK followers throughout which the deadly stabbing occurred.
In a associated growth, of the 98 individuals who have been arrested through the clashes late Monday, 4 Greeks who had been injured have been launched earlier Tuesday.
The remaining 94 will seem earlier than a prosecuting Justice of the Peace Wednesday whereas DNA samples are collected from them to determine the killer of the fan.
REACTIONS FROM OPPOSITION PARTIES
Sokratis Famellos, chair of the principle opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance’s parliamentary group, mentioned the killing was “yet another incident in which the government, instead of enhancing security, is creating insecurity.”
Nikos Androulakis, chief of the PASOK get together, referred to as the incident surprising.
“We demand immediate answers regarding the planning of the security measures from the Citizen Protection Ministry and the leadership of the police ahead of the football match and also the unprecedented fact that, in spite of a ban on the movement of fans by UEFA, a convoy of hundreds of hooligans crossed the country without being spotted and stopped by the police force,” he added.
In February final yr, 19-year-old Alkis Kampanos was stabbed and overwhelmed to dying by soccer hooligans within the Charilaou space of Thessaloniki, Greece after they got here as much as him whereas he was with a gaggle of associates and requested which soccer crew they adopted.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
