England play Serbia in Group C of the UEFA European Soccer Championship in Germany.
Police have rushed to separate brawling soccer followers forward of the match between England and Serbia on the Euro 2024 soccer match in Germany.
On Sunday, social media footage confirmed males throwing chairs at one another outdoors a restaurant festooned with Serbian flags within the western metropolis of Gelsenkirchen. One group beat a hasty retreat as riot police arrived and wrestled a minimum of one man to the bottom.
A Serbian fan instructed The Related Press {that a} group of individuals had thrown glasses and stones on the space outdoors a downtown bar the place he and others had been sitting collectively consuming beer.
“There was a conflict and we’re effective. In order that’s it, we’re going to the sport, we hope we’ll win. That is about soccer,” stated the person, who recognized himself solely as Vladimir and stated he was from the Serbian capital Belgrade.
Reporters who arrived shortly after the incident discovered the road plagued by damaged glass and tables as a number of dozen law enforcement officials stood by.
The match on Sunday night between England and Serbia has been tagged “excessive threat” by police over issues over potential fan violence.
“Thus far what ‘excessive threat’ means virtually is that lower-alcohol drinks can be bought and no alcohol in any respect may be drunk contained in the stands within the stadium,” Al Jazeera’s Dominic Kane stated, reporting from Munich.
Solely low-alcohol beer is being served within the Gelsenkirchen stadium in an try to scale back the potential for issues.
“One complicating issue is that UEFA, the dad or mum organisation of those championships, has stated that the boundaries contained in the stadium should be eliminated … that implies the English and Serbian followers may very well be intermingling contained in the stadium,” Kane famous, including that the German police have been placing in numerous effort to forestall such hooligan scuffles.
About 20,000 England followers and 10,000 from Serbia are anticipated to converge on town for the sport.
The match can be performed at Enviornment AufSchalke and begins at 9pm native time (19:00 GMT).
