Three charged after football riot

THREE suspected football hooligans were yesterday charged in connection with the ugly scenes that followed Wednesday night’s cup semi-final clash between Nea Salamina and APOEL at Larnaca’s Ammochostos stadium.

A 20-year-old and two 17-year-olds from Nicosia were arrested for allegedly smashing the windscreens of three Nea Salamina club mini-buses, damaging a police car and breaking shop window panes as APOEL fans went on the rampage after their team was knocked out.

The cost of the damage caused by the latest outbreak of football hooliganism on the island had not yet been calculated yesterday.

The three suspects have been charged with disturbing the piece and causing malicious damage and then released.


 

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