The National Police have arrested five fans of the German Eintracht Frankfurt for riots and attacks on fans of the Scottish Rangers FC in a massive fight that took place at midnight this Wednesday in front of the Cathedral of Seville, the city that hosts the final of the Europa League between both teams.
The events, as reported by the Police in a statement, occurred when a group of 200 Eintracht fans attacked Rangers supporters in the area surrounding the Cathedral and police officers who were in the Plaza de San Francisco, about a hundred meters away. They intervened to break up the tumult and the fight.
Observing the rapid arrival of the National Police Units, the German fans fled towards Paseo Colón, parallel to the Guadalquivir River, and beat Rangers supporters as they fled and confronted the police officers who were trying to prevent the aggression. to Scottish fans.
At this time, the German fans began to throw glass, flares and tables at the police officers and, when they reached about 100 meters from the bars located on Paseo de Colón and Calle Adriano, the police had set up lines of containment and managed to neutralize the incident in this way, firing a few salvos.
The place of these events is the same in which a confrontation between fans of Eintracht and English West Ham took place last March, when these teams faced Betis and Sevilla respectively in the round of 16 of the Europa League. As a result of these incidents there are no serious injuries, except for a Scottish supporter with a head injury.
The capital of Seville has received these days thousands of fans of both Rangers and Eintracht. It is estimated that in the streets of Seville there are about 100,000 fans in total of the two teams, most of whom do not have a ticket for this Wednesday’s game at the Sánchez Pizjuán, where only 42,000 spectators fit.
UEFA gave a total of 10,000 tickets to each of the clubs, so many of them will be unable to see the final from the stadium. Both Rangers and Eintracht tend to attract many supporters, especially the German team, which in the tie against Barça in the quarterfinals ‘invaded’ Barcelona and the Camp Nou in a controversial scene in the stands.
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