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Attack occurred after the semi-finals of the Roller Hockey Championship. Two of the FC Porto fans suffered serious injuries.
O FC Porto It was Lisbon to find out to final of the National Championship of Roller Hockeyby defeating the Sporting.
In the fifth and last game of the semi-finals, there was a draw (4-4) and in the great penalties the portista team got the best for 2-1.
In the final, FC Porto will face the European Champion’s Oquei of Barcelos, who in the other half-final away from Benfica.
But this “classic” of Portuguese sport was also marked by what happened outside the João Rocha Pavilion, long after the game: Sporting supporters burned a car where FC Porto fans were following.
The four attacked fans would be from the cheerleader super dragons and all were wounded – Two of them gravity.
On a street, next to traffic lights, the attack was performed by about 40 Sporting fanswith a torch or with a cocktail molotov, according to the.
Such different adherents from a Santo club… We hope this video will reach the competent authorities and help identify these abnormals, which confuse guerrilla rivalry. I fucked you!
– +FC Porto (@maisfcporto)
The two serious injuries went to Santa Maria Hospital. Three Sporting fans were arrested.
Sporting that “does not review in these behaviors,” he condemns what happened and will collaborate with the police to identify those responsible.
FC Porto also reacted and warned: “Just by chance this cowardly attack did not cause deadly victims”. The Portista club goes “even the last consequences to ensure that this case does not pass without severe and exemplary punishment for the criminals involved in it.”
FC Porto adds to what there were several attacked vehicles, “stoned and target of the pyrotechnic artifact throw. The occupants only had time to escape before one of the vehicles caught fire and is totally destroyed,” the club describes.
During the game there was no visible problem among supporters.
This attack occurred almost at the same time as-not related-also in Lisbon: three actors of the theater company the tent were assaulted by a group allegedly linked to an far right movement.
