Havoc in Naples before Eintracht Champions League match

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 15 - There was "full-on guerrilla warfare" in Naples ahead of Wednesday night's Champions League match in the city between Napoli and Eintracht Frankfurt, local officials said Wednesday.
    The Italian authorities had banned fans of the German club from attending the match due to concern about possible violence, but many Eintracht supporters made the trip to Italy anyway. A bus carrying a group of Eintracht fans was hit by a barrage of fireworks and other objects, kicking off the incidents and havoc.
    Some German 'ultras dressed in black with their faces covered threw glass bottles at a closed bar in the city's Piazza Bellini.
    Police officers were stationed outside a hotel on the Naples seafront where a number of Eintracht supporters are staying.
    Despite this, running battles between opposing fans broke out Wednesday with objects thrown by German fans and people wearing motorcycle helmets, and a police are was set on fire in via Calata Trinità Maggiore.
    Another two police vehicles were damaged.
    Several rubbish containers were overturned.
    Stones were thrown at a coach containing German fans.
    Locals ran for cover or huddled in their home for safety.
    Naples Mayor Gaetano Manfredi called the damage wreaked by the German fans "crazy and unacceptable" while the rightwing League party said the German government should pay to repair the damage.
    Manfredi said he had meet the German consul in Naples and they both condemned the violence.
    UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin on Tuesday criticized the decision to stop Frankfurt residents attending the match and threatened to move games away from clubs' home grounds if away fans are banned in future.
    Napoli go into Wednesday's last-16 match with a 2-0 advantage from the first leg. (ANSA).