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Two injured, including a police officer, after the EL match between Sturm and Lazio.
© APA / ERWIN SCHERIAU
After the Europa League match between Sturm Graz and Lazio Roma, two injured were injured in Graz on Thursday evening, including a police officer.
A police officer was hit in the head by an object towards the end of the game and suffered a laceration. A 25-year-old was found at night by a police patrol on an embankment south-east of the stadium: he had an open wound and said he was attacked by Italian fans.
Injured after the EL match between Sturm Graz and Lazio Roma
Police say investigations are ongoing. According to the manager, the groups of Italian fans had already been in the city of Graz the day before the start of the match, but the intervention was not necessary. Groups of fans gathered around the main square on Thursday afternoon. About 200 Italians marched to Liebenau’s Merkur Arena around 4:30 pm, which led to traffic disruptions at the central public transport hub on Jakominiplatz and delays. Several smaller groups were taken to the stadium by bus.
Lazio fans with outstretched right arm during a fans’ march
At the procession of fans some people showed an elongated right arm, which probably corresponded to the fascist or “Roman salute”. The video and photographic material will now be evaluated and sent to the Graz Public Prosecutor’s Office for a legal evaluation.
The police officer was hit in the head by an object and injured
Towards the end of the match, a police officer was hit in the head by an unknown object and suffered a laceration. It has yet to be determined whether the object was deliberately thrown at the officer by a stranger.
Wounded man found in an embankment
Around 10:30 pm, a police patrol in the Karl-Huber-Gasse area near the Liebenauer Tangente spotted a man lying on an embankment. The 25-year-old had a bleeding wound about two inches long on his left forearm. He said he had just been attacked by a group of Italian fans. He received two punches in the face and a stranger injured his forearm with a switchblade. The injured man was taken to the LKH in Graz, the authors’ research negative.
