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NOS Nieuws•gisteren, 17:23
The court docket in Almelo right this moment sentenced six extra rioters to jail or neighborhood service. 4 males will serve two to a few months in jail. Two others got a neighborhood service order of 240 hours with a suspended jail sentence of 1 to a few months.
As well as, soccer followers won’t be allowed inside a radius of 500 meters across the stadium in Enschede for 5 years.
Dozens of supporters attacked followers of the Swedish Hammarby on the primary stand in De Grolsch Veste on 27 July final yr. Twenty males had been recognised on digital camera footage and introduced earlier than the court docket on suspicion of public violence and tried assault.
FC Twente imposed a stadium ban on the suspects shortly after the riots. Two weeks in the past, the Public Prosecution Service demanded jail sentences of three to 4 and a half months. The sentence of the court docket is due to this fact decrease than the demand of the justice division, reviews regional broadcaster East.
Earlier convictions
Per week in the past, the court docket additionally sentenced ten FC Twente supporters to neighborhood service or a jail sentence for the riots after the match within the UEFA Convention League. The decide sentenced them to neighborhood service of 100 to 240 hours and jail sentences of 1 to 2 months.
Whether or not supporters got neighborhood service or a jail sentence depended, in line with the decide, on the extent of violence they used and whether or not the boys had been ready for potential riots. For instance, by taking a balaclava or mouthguard to the stadium.
“That supporters of a membership who’re visitors are attacked on this manner is totally unacceptable,” the court docket mentioned in its verdict. “The violence will need to have been very horrifying. Not just for the Hammarby supporters who had been attacked, but in addition for FC Twente supporters who had been in the primary stand, together with mother and father with kids.”
After right this moment, the variety of convicted rioters for the riots after this match stands at seventeen. Earlier, a fan was already given a 40-hour neighborhood service order. Three felony circumstances had been postponed on the final minute and can observe at a later date.
