Electronic tagging for Polish football hooligans?
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
19.10.2016 10:56
Poland’s Deputy Justice Minister Patryk Jaki on Wednesday said he does not rule out electronic tagging for football hooligans.
Patryk Jaki (right) with Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro. Photo: PAP/Rafał Guz
He was speaking after Legia Warszawa fans clashed with Spanish police ahead of their team’s 1:5 defeat to Real Madrid on Tuesday.
"We are working on new solutions in the Penal Code, which - I am convinced - will restore the statistics from our previous government in 2005-2007, when there was relative order," Jaki said.
He told the private TVN24 channel that officials were working to ensure hooligans faced “inevitable punishment.”
Legia supporters reportedly hurled glass bottles at police in Madrid before a Champions League group stage match on Tuesday.
Mounted and riot police retaliated using batons and rubber bullets. Five Legia fans and three police officers were injured.
Crowd trouble also broke on 14 September at Legia’s first game in the Champions League in 20 years, when it was thrashed 0:6 on home turf by Borussia Dortmund.
Following that match, UEFA, European football’s governing body, ordered Legia to hold a 2 November home game with Real Madrid behind closed doors, as punishment for fans’ misbehaviour. (pk)
Source: PAP