Six injured in clashes between FCZ and GC fans
Published: Sunday, Jan 28th 2024, 13:10
Retour au fil d'actualité
Six people were injured in riots between rival football fans in Zurich on the eve of the football derby. According to the city police, several streetcar windows were also smashed.
According to initial findings, several dozen unknown persons attacked a streetcar at the Mattenhof streetcar stop on Saturday evening, as the police reported on Sunday. The attackers were presumably FCZ supporters. A group of GC fans were on the streetcar.
This led to a physical altercation between the two groups. A local resident told local broadcaster TeleZüri that stones were thrown.
Five people had to be taken to hospital and another was given medical treatment at the scene. All of them have since left the hospital, the police reported. The streetcar sustained an as yet unknown amount of damage.
GC fans already turned away beforehand
The group of GC fans had already been checked by the police two hours before the altercation. Shortly after 9.30 pm, the city police received a report that a large group of people, some of them masked, had marched through Niederdorf to Central with sticks and other objects and boarded a streetcar there.
Several police patrols stopped the streetcar. The police officers seized various items, including batons, batons, pepper sprays, knives and disguise material, and ordered the 52 people away.
Controversial collective penalties
A week ago, there had already been riots after the FCZ match against Basel. The south curve will therefore remain closed at the next FCZ home game. Club president Ancillo Canepa condemned the violence to the "SonntagsZeitung", but at the same time criticized the closure of the south curve. Many innocent fans were being punished in this way.
Fan researcher Alain Brechbühl expressed similar views in the SonntagsBlick. He thinks little of seeing every fan as a potential perpetrator of violence. More could be achieved with area bans, reporting requirements and targeted investigative work, and some perpetrators could be identified. Repression is needed "whenever possible, individually and not collectively".
In recent months, the authorities have increasingly reacted to violence by football fans by closing individual stadium sectors. Most recently, the fan stadiums of Servette, Lausanne and Bern Young Boys were closed for one match.
©Keystone/SDA
French 
English 
German 
Spanish 
Arabic