The police and carabinieri of Rome are preparing for the quarterfinals: “Ukrainian fans do not pour!”

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The city is waiting for a football battle

While the post-Soviet football community is speculating about the outcome of tomorrow’s game between Ukraine and England, in police reports of Western European cities, citizens of Ukraine are slowly but surely pushing out representatives of the cheerleader environment from other, “less civilized” countries. It is not excluded that on Saturday at Rome’s Stadio Olimpico the stewards and the carabinieri who insure them will “just barely keep up” to one or even several local conflicts.

As Ukrainian migrants permanently residing in Italy report alarmingly, starting from Wednesday at all entrances to the country not a single bus from abroad is allowed. All because of the insidious “Delta +”, the Indian version of the coronavirus strain.

In Ukraine itself, they did not worry for long about the Eternal City that had been “slammed” for its fans. Because several thousand Ukrainians have promised to effectively support their compatriots at the Olympic Stadium. And these are only residents of the Italian provinces, excluding the “Ukrainian Romans”!

Every hour my compatriots abroad carry out a “roll call”; someone already has a ticket to the sports stadium, someone by 10 pm in Kiev will be one hundred percent in Piazza del Popolo (People’s Square “in their style”) or in other Roman fan zones. Not surprisingly, among the encouraging posts, there are also warnings about the very likely “provocations of pro-Kremlin activists.”

The well-known incident that took place on June 29 at Hampden Park in the capital of Scotland is called the “foundation” of such assumptions. Young Russian Denis Smolensky, together with his Ukrainian peers, entered the “Ukrainian” fan sector in the uniform of the Russian national team, wearing a cap with earflaps with a red star and wrapped in a Russian tricolor. Such an obvious “political positioning” of the native of Tula angered several drunken Ukrainian fans. One of the hooligans cut Denis’s eyebrow with a blow of his fist, another tore off the hat with earflaps from the ex-Tula’s head and took away the Russian state flag. Most of the fans, as Smolensky himself later said, stood up for him; the fighter was taken away by the police. Either in the vicinity, or just outside the stadium.

To my deep regret, the incident in Ukraine was greeted with a bang. Like, this is how it will continue to be with every “quilted jacket-provocateur”!

For some reason, pro-nationalistic Ukrainians did not think that Denis Smolensky also has every right to position himself as a Russian, although he has been living with his parents in Scotland since the age of 5. The young man, giving an absolutely sincere flash interview to the correspondent of the popular Ukrainian You-Tube channel “Bombardir”, hardly guessed about the scuffle awaiting him on the podium.

Another “near-football” emergency with the participation of a Ukrainian happened almost simultaneously with the “Scottish” one in Magdeburg. This city for several decades in a row was listed in the “Soviet zone of Germany”, that is, was part of the GDR.

On the night of June 30, a 41-year-old citizen of Ukraine wished to join the hundreds of local football fans gathered in the Uni-Theke pub. Fortunately, the drinking establishment informed the fellow countrymen ahead of time about several “plasmas” installed in the visibility zone for joint television viewing.

That extremely dramatic match between the Ukrainians and the Swedes in the 1/8 finals of the European Championship dragged on until almost 1 am. For the local police, the search for the “adventurer” continued for another hour and a half.

At the entrance to the Magdeburg bar on Universitatsplatz, the guards courteously suggested that the Ukrainian wear a protective mask, because quarantine restrictions in Germany in connection with the spread of the Indian strain of the Delta Plus coronavirus were again tightened. The drunk Ukrainian tried to be insolent for a short time, then suddenly, one by one, he stabbed the pub workers who were taking him out of the establishment with a knife and ran away. The third colleague of the heavily wounded security guards managed to catch up with the “ripper”, however, in the process of a short fight, he almost got a penetrating knife wound.

The police called by the staff of the pub began to comb the nearby city blocks. At about 2 am the intruder was caught. He tried to “sit out” in the stairwell of a house located in the next square. While the police officers read out his rights to the Ukrainian, the culprit of the bloody drama shouted loudly, they say, he will still return to the pub and “will certainly finish off the guard.”

A Magdeburg police spokesman said both of the 43-year-old security guards were quickly taken to nearby hospitals by ambulances. The wounds of the first German were characterized by doctors as “life-threatening”, the injuries of his colleague were called “serious”.

The District Court of Magdeburg (Saxony-Anhalt) issued an arrest warrant for the Ukrainian. He is in custody in the ward of the local hospital (because he was slightly cut with his own “working tool”) and demands a meeting with the consul Nazalezhna.

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