Re: Liverpool Thread
crayon said:
Heard loads of horror stories on the Talksport brekkie show this morning. Hope everything is okay but I can't say I'd have much faith in the police over there.
Anyway, here's to a good game. Cheers! *holding beer up*
same here, i was in rome in 2001 and the police kicked off big time in the airport on the way home, they just waded in with batons for no reason and forced people onto any flights back to the uk just to get us out of the country, also know a couple of mancs who've been to turin and milan a couple of times and have had problems with little or no protection from the police
however there were a couple of isolated incidents last night
"Police in Turin have detained eight Juventus supporters following an attack on a visiting fan from Liverpool late on Tuesday night.
The assault happened around midnight, less than 24 hours before the start of Juventus' Champions League quarter-final second leg against Liverpool at the Delle Alpi.
Security for the game is high as the contest is between the two teams involved in the Heysel Stadium disaster 20 years ago, when 39 spectators died as a result of crowd trouble.
The Liverpool fan received treatment on the scene but did not go to hospital.
Turin police spokeswoman Cecilia Tartoni said: "Last night, a group of Juventus fans entered a pub in the city centre where a group of English supporters were.
"There was an argument, and a Liverpool fan was hit in the head with a bat by one of the Juventus fans.
"The Liverpool fan received medical attention in the pub. He did not have to go to hospital, and the prognosis is that he will recover in seven days. He will still go to the game tonight."
Tartoni said that police acted swiftly after the attack.
"Twenty Juventus fans were stopped by the police," she said.
"We searched the vehicles, and their homes and we found baseball bats and other weapons. Eight of them have been detained by police for being in possession of arms."
Meanwhile, police were called to a city centre hotel in Turin on Wednesday amid fears that a group of Juventus fans were threatening to assault Liverpool supporters.
Liverpool Echo reporter Tony Barrett had just interviewed English fans ahead of tonight's Champions League game between the sides and had stepped outside the Star Hotel Majestic to take a photograph of the supporters when the trouble began.
Hotel staff telephoned police.
Barrett said: "Five Juventus hooligans came towards the hotel carrying bottles and a white stick."
Words were exchanged but no fighting occurred and the Juventus fans ran from the scene and were gone by the time the two police vans and an ambulance pulled up outside the hotel entrance.
Police did stop another group of Juventus fans and searched them for weapons but none was found."