And the Naples County Police imposed a ban on the eight fans from entering the stadiums for a period of between five and eight years, after what happened on Wednesday on the sidelines of the match that the Italian club won 3-0, thus reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time in its history.
Naples police official Alessandro Giuliano told the Italian news agency AGI that six police officers were injured and the perpetrators of the riots were still being identified “through analysis of photographs” taken by the police or posted on social media.
The first clashes took place on Wednesday afternoon between fans and police in Piazza del Jezo Novo in the city’s historic centre, in a scene similar to a gang war.
After the match, fights took place near the hotel where German fans were staying on Naples Beach.
When the German fans left their hotel by bus, Napoli fans tried to stop them by throwing stones and firecrackers, and the police responded to this attack with tear gas and water cannons.
Police identified 470 fans of the German team before they left.
Footage broadcast by Italian media before the match showed hundreds of Eintracht Frankfurt fans throwing smoke bombs and firecrackers at police, who responded with tear gas.
A police car was also set on fire, while hooded men in black hurled chairs, bottles and iron poles.
And Italian and German media reported that a group of ultras fans of the local opponent, Atalanta, helped Eintracht fans and participated with them in the clash with the police, given the historical rivalry between the two Italian teams.
Eintracht fans traveled to the Italian south, despite the fact that their club decided not to sell tickets for the visiting team in the stands of the “Diego Armando Maradona” stadium.
Eintracht Frankfurt did not take the tickets allocated to it, after the city of Naples decided on Sunday to prevent Frankfurt residents from attending the match.
The Italian Interior Ministry initially banned all fans from Germany from attending due to the violence surrounding the first leg in Frankfurt when nine people were arrested.
Then the ban was canceled on Saturday after an appeal from the German club, but the city of Naples banned all residents of Frankfurt on Sunday.
Eintracht’s attempt to appeal the ban was rejected and the German club decided to give away the 2,700 tickets allowed by UEFA rules for supporters.
The Italian ANSA news agency quoted the mayor of Naples, Gaetano Manfredi, as denouncing the “crazy and unacceptable destruction.”
The fans of the German club have been under the microscope of the European Union for the game “Wifa” since last season, after they invaded the field after qualifying for the final of the “Europa League” competition, which their team won at the expense of the Scottish Rangers.
They also clashed in September with French Marseille fans, as both sides threw smoke bombs at the other, seriously injuring an Eintracht fan.
