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Police detain sixty armed fans with knives before Europa League clash

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Police detain sixty armed fans with knives before Europa League clash

GERMAN police have detained armed Lazio fans ahead of the Europa League clash with Dynamo Kiev in Hamburg.

About 60 away fans were stopped by the authorities after attempting to avoid a police escort.

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German police have arrested about 60 armed Lazio fans before the game with Dynamo KievCredit: Getty

Cops claim the supporters were found to be carrying knives, clubs and other weapons.

Those fans were checked late Tuesday and detained until Wednesday.

Lazio released a statement which confirmed the fans held overnight have been banned from attending the game at the Volksparkstadion.

However, the Serie A giants also announced that there were no arrests.

Ukraine giants Dynamo are playing their home games in Hamburg this season because of the war in their homeland after Russia’s illegal invasion back in 2022.

Lazio have been hit with numerous sanctions both in Serie A and Europe because of fan trouble throughout the years.

Only last March, an Italian fan sang fascist songs in a beer hall in Germany where Adolf Hitler founded the Nazi party before a Champions League match against Bayern Munich.

He was subsequently arrested and fined for giving a Hitler salute in public.

A year earlier, a fan wearing a shirt with a reference to Hitler was slapped with a lifetime ban from attending Lazio matches by the Roman club.

Authorities reviewed security camera footage from inside the Olimpico of the fan wearing a Lazio shirt that read “Hitlerson” and the No88, which is a numerical code for “Heil Hitler”.

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Two seasons ago, the Laziali were ordered to play a Serie A game with part of their home ground closed to spectators after fans directed racist chants at opposing players.

Source link – thesun.co.uk

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