About 60 followers had been held in a single day and banned from the stadium because the Italian membership performed Dynamo Kyiv in Hamburg, German police mentioned.
A number of supporters of Italian soccer membership Lazio have been banned from attending their UEFA Europa League match towards Dynamo Kyiv in Hamburg after German police seized weapons from them, the membership and police mentioned.
The followers had been stopped after making an attempt to evade a police escort close to the town’s city corridor and had been subsequently searched by riot officers.
“After the group tried to evade police surveillance and ignored officers’ shouts, riot police stopped and checked the group,” a police assertion mentioned on Wednesday.
Searches discovered 5 knives, six meat pounders, two picket planks, a membership, a pipe wrench and a spit, amongst different gadgets.
Hamburg police mentioned that about 60 followers of the Siere A staff spent the night time within the cells. Followers had been held late on Tuesday and detained till Wednesday.
Lazio recorded a complete 3-0 win towards the Ukrainian membership.
The match was performed in Hamburg because of the persevering with Russia-Ukraine warfare.
Lazio supporters have an extended historical past of making bother and the membership has been hit with quite a few sanctions each in Serie A and Europe.
In March, an Italian fan was arrested in Munich for performing an Adolf Hitler salute earlier than a Lazio match towards Bayern Munich.
Earlier than a Champions League recreation towards Bayern Munich in March, one Italian amongst about 100 Lazio supporters who sang fascist songs within the beer corridor the place Adolf Hitler based the Nazi Occasion was arrested and fined for giving a Hitler salute.
A 12 months earlier, a fan sporting a shirt with a reference to Hitler was banned for all times from attending Lazio matches by the Roman membership.
Additionally in 2022-23, Lazio was ordered to play a Serie A recreation with a part of the Olimpico stadium closed to spectators after followers directed racist chants at opposition gamers.
