In preparation for the Tel Aviv derby tonight (Saturday, 20:00) in Bloomfield, the police received a trailer for what awaits them, when last night they dispersed a procession of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Florence after the victory over CSKA Moscow in basketball. But there were no Hapoel fans there. “A, so that contact between the camps is avoided.
Today, during Maccabi Tel Aviv training, one of the Yellows’ fans rubbed shoulders with a driver who passed near Kiryat Shalom. The police force that was at the scene found a large kitchen knife 30 cm long. The fan has been arrested, will be removed from the pitches, and tonight during the game he will have to report to a station in north Tel Aviv to keep him away from the Bloomfield area.
At the same time, a police force was active in Bloomfield Stadium, led by an area officer and a Jaffa station officer, when the force scanned, among other things, slicks in the stadium and checked whether pyrotechnics were hidden in them. The force was called after the police received a call that abusive graffiti had been written in the garage area against Maccabi Tel Aviv, “Holocaust” inscriptions, etc. A fan was caught nearby with paint stains on his clothes. The fan will also be removed from the fields for a long time.
It can be said that in the Yiftach area, the police are preparing for a derby like a kind of war. Already yesterday, police forces visited the homes of Maccabi and Hapoel Tel Aviv fans to check if there are any pyrotechnic devices they are hiding. The search did not reveal anything, as the fans also became sophisticated over the years and know that the police conduct such searches.
JSM forces, detectives, etc. will be stationed many hours before the game at all sorts of friction points options of the fan camps. One of the issues that preoccupied the police this week was Gate 8 to which many Maccabi fans purchased tickets.
According to the early information received by the police, explicit instructions were given to the fans on how to get there: Maccabi fans intend to plant photos on cell phones as if they were Hapoel fans, and come with shirts and scarves of the Reds. On behalf of Hapoel Tel Aviv, there will be 8 selectors at the gate when they will identify each fan in addition to the police officers who will be stationed at this gate.
On the other hand, the police also prepared a number of scenarios. One scenario is that in the end several dozen Maccabi Tel Aviv fans will be discovered at the gate, and the police prepared in advance how they will be pulled out of the gate. .
One of the things the police hope to prevent is the introduction of pyrotechnics into Bloomfield Stadium. In light of this, the police will conduct thorough checks on fans and young children, with the scenario being that there will be an attempt to infiltrate the means through them. Also, the police also estimated how long before the game there will be an attempt to do so. There will be about 11 sniffer dogs in the stadium to locate the means.
Also, even before the stadium is opened to fans, the police will conduct a thorough search of the files and employees themselves at the stadium to prevent the possibility that they will use them to infiltrate the means. In addition, observers will be stationed outside and inside the stadium.
YSM forces will be stationed at the gate funds and will be ready for any intervention. Hapoel Tel Aviv will also operate state-of-the-art cameras that can identify the smallest items, in addition to the permanent cameras stationed in Bloomfield.
Police conducted scenarios and intervention exercises for a number of situations that will be before and during the game itself. At each gate a police officer will be stationed to be a senior figure for any situation that may arise.
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