Alert from the Viminale on Napoli’s move to Turin

The Neapolitan fans, according to what is learned from sources in the Viminale, will be particularly put in the spotlight by the security forces in view of the Serie A match Turin-Naples on Sunday at 3 pm. The supporters will move back to Italy for the first time after the two-month ban imposed by the Ministry of the Interior following the clashes on 8 January on the motorway with Romanist ultras, to whom the same ban was then imposed.

There are currently 8 people arrested in total for the incidents that occurred in Naples before and after the Napoli-Eintracht Champions League match. The number of Neapolitans arrested rises to 5, according to what was reported by the commissioner Alessandro Giuliano during a press conference, while there are currently three Germans against whom restrictive measures have been taken. Six men of the police were injured or bruised in yesterday’s incidents in Naples, explained the Naples commissioner.

There are 470 German ultras who have been taken from hotels to the police offices for identification procedures: 120 were accompanied, in the early hours of the night, to the police station in Frosinone and detained for identification. Then they were escorted to Fiumicino airport and left Italy. Another 350 ultras are still in the Salerno police station to be identified.

The police are evaluating the position of all the other fans, both Italian and German, who were involved in the incidents that took place both in Piazza del Gesù and along the Naples seafront. For all those arrested, the police commissioner of Naples has already ordered the Daspo, from 5 to 8 years old. One of those arrested – a 32-year-old Neapolitan – was blocked as he threw stones at two of the five buses carrying German fans. He will have to answer for “throwing dangerous material at sporting events” and resisting a public official. The staff officers of the Giugliano-Villaricca police station then arrested a 46-year-old from Aversa with a police record, attributable to the Lions group of curve A, for having thrown a smoke bomb and stones at the police in via Chiatamone, overturning and damaging bins some trash. At the same time, agents of Digos and the Secondigliano police station, still in via Chiatamone, arrested a 27-year-old German because, with his face distorted and armed with a wooden pole, in the company of other people being identified, he was responsible for a dense throwing of objects at the police. Finally, the investigations carried out by Digos with the support of the images recorded by the scientific police on the riots in Piazza del Gesù and Calata Trinità Maggiore, led this morning to the arrest, in “deferred flagrance”, of three Napoli fans – a 47-year-old Neapolitan attributable a partnership from curve B, a 51-year-old from Casoria and a 38-year-old Neapolitan belonging to partnerships from curve A – and two Eintracht fans aged 35 and 28. The complete identification of all the German fans who arrived in Naples is underway, “whose position – explains the police headquarters – will be examined for having organized an unannounced demonstration as well as for any other crime which, based on the investigations, will be deemed attributable to them” .

Statements by UEFA president Ceferin are unacceptable FrBecause they start from a prejudice, as if everyone in Naples were criminals and whoever arrives here is instead a saint. It’s not true, criminals are everywhere and they must be faced with the awareness that if we don’t eradicate them from the dynamics of the game, in the end people won’t be able to move around Europe for a game”: thus the mayor of Naples Gaetano Manfredi, in the press conference in the Prefecture regarding the words of the UEFA president on Tuesday who defined the ban on travel to Naples for Eintracht fans as ‘intolerable’. “Yesterday the city of Naples was hostage to thugs for a few hours, Germans and Neapolitans. The real issue now is that the club and the prefecture fought a good battle not to sell tickets but the problem is that it’s not enough There is a group of people who, regardless of going to the stadium, travel across Europe to commit violence at an international level and the management of these events doesn’t work” Manfredi said. “A targeted action is needed – explained the mayor – to prevent these groups of hooligans from going around Europe to destroy cities. The problem must be faced head-on, otherwise it will arise again in the next matches. The violent ones must be eliminated from the middle , of whatever nation and team they are, should not be protected by anyone”.

De Laurentiis: ‘I saw an English stadium last night’

De Laurentiis’ proposal
“The Italian policy of violence in football has always washed its hands. There was the only prime minister to do something, she was English, a woman, and I expect Meloni to do the same. I’ve been saying this for a long time: take the English law and apply it in Italy” said De Laurentiis, at a press conference in the Prefecture in Naples, underlining that a change of rules is needed because “if attendance at the stadium isn’t regulated here, there isn’t even the possibility of improving it. The stadium must be a sacred place where this very important scenic representation is transmitted to the world, as happened yesterday for us with a match seen by a billion people”. Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis attended the meeting of the committee for order and security with the prefect of Naples, Claudio Palomba, and the mayor, Gaetano Manfredi.

During the night, the forces of order, with a massive array of men and vehicles, blocked the access roads to the hotel entrances where the German fans are staying. In via Chiatamone, in particular, there had previously been a repulsed attempted assault.

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