Four Napoli fans and three Eintracht
Frankfurt fans were arrested Thursday after Wednesday's mayhem
in Naples after the German fans flouted a travel ban and clashed
with local fans and the police before their Champions League
last 16 return leg.
Six police were hurt in the clashes, officials said Thursday.
Hundreds of fans fought running battles in the streets, rubbish
containers were overturned, and three police cars were damaged,
one of which was set on fire.
The identification of all Eintracht Frankfurt fans after
yesterday's riots in Naples is underway.
Some 470 German ultras were taken from their hotels to police
offices for identification procedures: 120 were accompanied in
the early hours of the night to the police station in Frosinone,
between Naples and Rome, and detained for identification.
They were then escorted to Fiumicino airport and left Italy.
Another 350 ultras are still at the police station in Salerno to
be identified.
Naples Prefect Claudio Palomba told a press conference on the
incidents: "I would like to thank the police forces in Naples
who worked all day yesterday and in the end managed until late
at night to avoid the moment of contact between the two opposing
fans of Frankfurt and Naples".
He added: "'Yesterday's procession of Germans was not stopped by
the police. In the end nothing happened at that march yesterday,
it was a procession of unarmed people, if we had stopped the
procession and groups of 30-50 people had gone around it would
have been more difficult to control them".
Naples Mayor Gaetano Manfredi described as "unacceptable" the
words of UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin who had branded the
Naples court travel ban for the German fans as "intolerable".
Napoli won 3-0 on the night and 5-0 on aggregate to advance to
the Champions League quarterfinals for the first time, joining
AC Milan and Inter Milan and giving Italy three teams in the
quarters for the first time since 2006.
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