More than 20 fans arrested after World Cup opener
11/6/2006 10:51
German police confirmed yesterday more than 20 soccer fans, most of them
German, were arrested amid violence overnight in the city of Frankfurt after the
FIFA World Cup opening matches.
Three German and three English fans were
arrested after a brawl close to the city's central station, said German
police.
German police also arrested 15 people in another part of the city
following brawling in a restaurant, among them were five Germans, one English
and two Polish fans.
In a third incident in the region four more people were
taken in, two of them German.
German police said these arrested people were
simple drunken fans and not hooligans.
"They were simply soccer fans who had
been drinking too much," said a spokeswoman for German police.
Xinhua
|
