Three Real Sociedad fans were stabbed on Wednesday night by Lazio ultra fans, who attacked a group of Basque fans in the Italian capital and caused a pitched battle on the eve of the Europa League match that both will play this Thursday in the Olympic stadium in Rome.
The three royalist fans were attacked with sharp weapons, as confirmed to the EFE agency by police sources, without the severity of their injuries being known at the moment.
“It all happened around 11:00 p.m. local time (22:00 GMT), when a group of about 70 royalist fans were attacked by about 80 Lazio ultras when they were in a place on the central Via Leonina, using blunt and sharp objects,” they indicated. the sources.
When they arrived at the scene, the agents confiscated numerous sharp objects and short weapons, while some ultras were arrested in the adjacent streets after fleeing due to the alarm raised by some residents.
The police have opened an investigation to locate other possible perpetrators of the incidents, also using images from video surveillance systems, the sources added.
In the images, viral in ‘X’ and published by the ‘Hooligans.cz Official’ account, you can see how in the fight that occurred in the premises, chairs flew and flares were thrown from one side to the other constantly until, After several minutes, the royalist fans leave the place, pursued by the ‘Ultras Lazio’, who even attacked some straggling Basque fans.
The aforementioned account also published a photo in which a ‘txuri urdin’ fan is seen slightly injured in the left side area with some type of sharp object.
In September, ‘ultra’ fans of Roma, the other team in the city, assaulted several Athletic Club fans who were also traveling for a Europa League match.
