At least two injured and six arrested: this is the outcome of the clashes between English and Serbian fans which started a brawl near a restaurant in Gelsenkirchen, a few hours before the match between the two national teams for group C of Euro 2024 The videos released by the English tabloids show some hooligans fighting with rival fans also throwing chairs, in front of the place decorated with Serbian flags. The German police intervened and took away several fans, some of whom had bleeding faces. There would have been too a throwing of stones and glasses. TO20 thousand English and 10 thousand Serbian fans are expected at the stadium for a match that was considered a high risk for public order.
Clashes also in Hamburg
A man wielding an ax and holding it in his other hand a Molotov cocktail was injured by police officers who shot him before the European Football Championship match in Hamburg.
The incident triggered a “major operation” in the St. Pauli neighborhood, police said on view of the match between Poland and Holland. The attacker “came out of a bar with an ax (according to other sources it was a pickaxe, ed.) and a Molotov cocktail and threatened the police”, the spokesperson said, adding that the attacker was hit in the leg .
The accident occurred near the Reeperbahn station, more than a kilometer from the area where the fans had gathered.