The match in Rome through the eyes of a Slavia fan: the Italian police exceeded our expectations! A lot of people around us said it was one of the worst exits

The match in Rome was supposed to be a celebration of football for the fans of Slavia. But a beautiful, affordable trip turned into something we don’t want to experience at football. The Sevilla fans experienced bullying from the local police and one of the fans who attended the match described for Ruik what they experienced.

This outburst will probably not be easily forgotten by Slavia fans. You would think that the highlight would be not letting in the laborious choreo that was pre-arranged, but that was just the beginning.

The red and whites in Rome were harassed by the local police, they were subjected to a really detailed search outside the stadium, they even had to take off their shoes. The 0:2 result afterwards was not the worst they had experienced in Rome.

After the game, they understandably had to wait to be let off, so that the fan groups of both teams would not meet in large numbers. However, the Italians took it to a proper level.

They left the Sešiv fans in the stadium for more than two hours. Thus, one of the fans who participated in the trip tried to give the public an insight into what actually happened at the Stadio Olimpico for Ruik.

One of the worst exits

“We were already warned before the game about the big checks, but even so the Italian police exceeded our expectations. We arrived at the stadium at 19:00, with a queue of around 200 people in front of us at the entrance. But we didn’t get into the stadium until 20:35 after an hour and a half.

At the first entrance they let in about 10 people every 2 minutes, they checked our IDs and scanned the ticket. After 10 meters there was a line of security who searched us thoroughly.

This was followed by another long queue to the turnstiles. After passing the ticket, another ID check by security and after 5 meters an extremely thorough search including touching of private parts and taking off shoes.

After the match we wait for about 40 minutes in the sector, sit quietly and about 30 riot police with shields run into the stands. They started to provoke the fans and beat those who resisted with batons. An hour and a half after the match, a queue had already formed at the exit, but the police blocked the way and did not let anyone out, not even one woman who was collapsing.

Only after a while did they get some sense and started letting children and women in one by one. When we finally got out of the sector after 2 hours, there was another search and another queue at the exit. A lot of people around us said it was one of the worst exits and they probably won’t go to Italy to watch football again,” a fan who was present at the match told Ruik.

Slavia has decided to take action and will lodge a protest against the behaviour of the Italian police and UEFA’s underestimation. Representatives of the club will also remain in Italy for some time and will solve everything on the spot.

Source: Ruik