The Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawieckihas asked its Foreign Ministry to adopt “immediate diplomatic measures” in relation to the incidents that took place on Thursday during the Conference League match between Legia and AZ Alkmaar in the Netherlands with a 1-0 home win. .
In a message published on his social networks, the head of the Polish Government wrote that he “ordered the Foreign Minister to implement urgent diplomatic measures to verify last night’s events” and added that “The Polish players and fans must be treated in accordance with the law.”
In this sense, the Polish Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pawel Jablonski, He announced a few hours later that he had summoned the Dutch ambassador to Poland.
“The Polish government cannot accept discrimination against our citizens. Those responsible for this must face the consequences. We hope for the cooperation of the competent authorities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in this matter,” Jablonski wrote on the X social network.
Violent clashes between fans
This is a reaction to the situation experienced last night at the AZ Alkmaar stadium, where There were violent clashes between local and Polish fans which led the police to close the venue. to evacuate it in stages and avoid fights around.
According to Polish media, members of the Legia expedition tried to leave as soon as possible to board their bus, but when the club president, Dariusz Mioduski, and the members of the technical team demanded an explanation from the riot police, were shocked and beaten.
Joshua and Pankov, arrested
From the bus, the players of the Polish team scolded the police, who demanded that two of them, in Portuguese Josué, and in Serbian Radovan Pankov, They made them get out of the car and then handcuffed them and took them to the police station, so that they could not travel with the rest of their companions. According to Legia, both remain in custody.
In videos broadcast by Polish media, you can see how members of the Polish delegation are attacked with batons by at least two policemen.
In a televised interview this morning, the Polish Minister of Justice, Zbigniew Ziobro, announced that “proceedings related to these events are likely to be initiated” and that “according to the Polish Criminal Code, if a Polish citizen is attacked, the prosecutor’s office can intervene”, even though the events it happened outside their country.
Furthermore, Ziobro recalled how a few months ago, a group of Polish farmers who went to The Hague to protest political measures were, according to him, “brutally attacked” by the Dutch police. “At that time we did not have the authority to initiate a process, but everything indicates that now we will have the grounds for a case.”
For its part, the Polish Football Federation asked the Dutch counterpart and UEFA for explanations.
Source: La Verdad
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