No major incidents in Rotterdam surrounding Feyenoord-Roma match
Xinhua, February 27, 2015 Adjust font size:
The arrival of about 2,400 AS Roma fans in Rotterdam on Thursday has so far hardly led to incidents, following last week's turmoil in Rome.
The supporters of AS Roma did not cause major problems. Last week Feyenoord fans caused demolitions in Rome surrounding the first encounter in the last 32 of the Europa League (1-1). Dutch police feared reprisals from Italian fans in Rotterdam, but nothing serious happened before the match. Out of precaution many police officers had duty on the streets.
Feyenoord had called their own fans to behave positively, following the riots last week in Rome. In total the police arrested 17 Dutch fans and one Italian for relatively small issues such as fighting or throwing fireworks.
Earlier on Thursday, two buses with 83 supporters of AS Roma were stopped on the highway to prevent them from going to Amsterdam. Under police escort the two buses drove to a police station in Rotterdam.
According to the police, the fans have not misbehaved, but were not welcome in Amsterdam. Until shortly before the start of the match at 9:05 p.m. the fans remained at the police office. Endit