TRIESTE – At the end of the basketball game between Trieste Basketball and Openjobmetis Vareseruckus breaks out outside the PalaTrieste. What happened? Ultras from Varese together with the twinned ones from Udine would have awaited the exit of the Trieste players for a fight with sticks.
The facts
According to the online edition of Il Piccolo, chaos broke out outside the stadium clashes between fans of Openjobmetis Varese and those of Pallacanestro Trieste. About twenty Varese supporters with their faces covered, flanked by twin ultras of Udine having arrived specifically, they left the stadium a few minutes before the end of the match to wait for the Trieste players near the main entrance. Not local ultras, but families with children and ordinary fans who were calmly leaving the PalaTrieste. In short, a full-blown ambush. Smoke bombs flew and then the two factions clashed with sticks during which they remained 3 fans from Trieste were injured and a policewoman was hit in the head.
The note from Pallacanestro Trieste
Pallacanestro Trieste is close and wants to embrace as soon as possible the fans and representatives of the police who found themselves involved today, at the end of the match against Varese, in an unprecedented and unacceptable episode of violence, instigated by the opposing fans, at the exit of the PalaTrieste.
General Manager Michael Arcieri
We strongly condemn what happened this evening. It is unacceptable that a moment of joy and sport turns into violence. For us the priority is that PalaTrieste continues to be a safe place for families and all fans. We have the utmost confidence in the police so that those responsible for this cowardly act, which morally affects the entire club, are brought to justice. We reject violence in all its forms. Our culture and our sport cannot accept it.
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