Serbia fans clash with Italian policeSerbia fans clash with Italian police
Fourteen people were hospitalised early Wednesday after Serbian fans clashed with Italian police following the two countries' cancelled Euro 2012 qualifying match in Genoa, northern Italy.
In violence before, during, and after the match, some Serbian fans targeted not just Italian fans and local police but their own team's goalkeeper.
The most seriously injured in the violence early Wednesday was a member of Italy's paramilitary caribinieri, who was rushed to hospital after an explosive device detonated in his face. A Serbian fan also suffered facial injuries.
The match was abandoned Tuesday night just six minutes in, after Italy's goalkeeper was hit by a flare, which Serbian fans were throwing onto the pitch and at Italian supporters.
After the game, in the early hours of Wednesday morning, Italian police kept Serbian fans hemmed into a gated parking area, intending to release them in small groups to waiting buses.
The clashes started when some of the fans managed to break out and police in riot gear moved to try to get them under control
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A big tattoed Serbian with a balaclava burns the Albanian flag.
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Football: There is connection between Serbian hooligans, Italian extremists – Italian press - FOCUS Information AgencyFootball: There is connection between Serbian hooligans, Italian extremists
Belgrade. It is possible that there is a connection between Serbian football hooligans and Italian extreme rightist groups, Italian media write on Saturday, commenting on the Serbs’ outrage during the Italy-Serbia European Championship qualifier.
According to police, it seems as if there is some ‘black nationalism’ between the extremists from Serbia, Slovenia, Austria and Italy, who connect the neo-fascism to extreme football fans, Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper writes.
It is not by chance that the group of 37 football fans arrested by Italian police includes Austrian nationals, a Croatian, a Slovenian and a Serb, who lives in Trento.
Around 200 football fans from Serbia were in Milan, where they had a meeting with representatives of the Italian extreme rightists.
Police are looking for connection between the extreme rightist groups in Verona and the Serbian nationalists and neo-Nazis, Il Jurnale writes.
Police are investigating the information that the group of Serbian fans has arrived in Verona with several buses and then went to Genoa, as well as that one of the flags waved during the violence at the stadium was bearing a Verona sign.
Ivan Bogdanov, leader of the Serbian fans, and other 8 Serbs will face the court in Italy and may be sentenced to up to 4 years in jail, Italian media say.
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The Dutch parliament unanimously voted on Wednesday to postpone Serbia’s candidacy for European Union (EU) membership until at least December. The decision came even though the other 26 EU member states made it clear that they favored Belgrade’s candidacy.
It also came after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made glowing statements about Belgrade’s pro-Western government and specifically its president, Boris Tadic, during her visit on Oct. 12, calling Serbia a “leader in Europe” and unreservedly throwing Washington’s support behind Belgrade’s EU bid.
The Dutch decision has been widely perceived by Serbians as a reaction to the riots in Belgrade on Oct. 10, led by well-organized and motivated violent nationalist groups — self-styled “patriotic movements” — and subsequent Oct. 12 unrest in Genoa at a Serbia-Italy soccer match by some of the same elements.
However, the Netherlands would have probably made its decision no matter the events in Belgrade and Genoa, largely because of a combination of Dutch politics — which have taken a turn to the right, and therefore markedly against EU enlargement — and Dutch insistence on maintaining an EU commitment to a certain set of membership standards regardless of supposed geopolitical benefits.
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