Dynamo Kyiv fans wrote a solidarity message to Dinamo Zagreb hooligans arrested in Athens on... rockets!

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Two days after the murder of Michalis Katsouris by the hooligans of Dinamo Zagreb and their Greek accomplices from Panathinaikos, unfortunately, what is happening on social media proves that the wishes we all express are not going to provide any solution to the hot issue of violence in the stadiums.

Every possible and improbable analysis of the relationships between the Greek teams' organised fans and their respective foreign clubs has been done in the last few hours. However, the foreign allies of the Greeks have other... connections.

And the way the Dinamo Kyiv hooligans showed their support for Dinamo Zagreb's Bad Blue Boys (with whom they are twinned) is truly disgusting.

The Ukrainians used two rockets (!!!) on which they wrote:

"Free BBB" and "04.08.2023, Athens, BBB are kings of Europe").

This specific move, which we repeat also proves the magnitude of the problem, caused the reaction of dozens of social media users who, in their comments, attacked the fans of Dynamo Kyiv with equally extreme characterisations...

Yet, this is unsurprising since BBB and the hooligans of Dynamo Kyiv are connected with their support for the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, which persecuted and even murdered Greeks in Mariupol up until the Russian capture of the city in May 2022.

Meanwhile, UEFA deferred the planned football match between AEK Athens and DNK Dinamo Zagreb on Tuesday night following the murder of an AEK fan in sports-related violence the previous day.

A meeting at OPAP arena on the security measures ended with AEK walking out and laying blame for Monday night's events on the Hellenic Police and the Croatian club, accusing DNK Dinamo's management that it had "known everything and allowed it to happen" without informing anyone.

AEK CEO Giorgos Kosmas said that the Zagreb club must have known that an entire convoy had left Zagreb. In contrast, he said the Greek police were to blame for allowing this convoy to traverse Greece's length and breadth to meet with their accomplices from a rival Greek team, Panathinaikos and get to the Athens neighbourhood of Nea Philadelphia.

"Dinamo Zagreb and the Greek police are responsible for everything that happened last night," he said before walking out.

Amateur video of the incident showed chaotic scenes, with fans hurling flares and petrol bombs and clashing with wooden bats.

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic called his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis to express his condemnation of the violence, with the Croatian government describing the clashes as "horrific."

Fans gathered at the site of the fan's death Tuesday, leaving flowers, church candles and black-and-yellow AEK soccer scarves at the makeshift roadside shrine.

Near the makeshift shrine, police cordoned off an area to gather evidence, pulling a wooden bat and other items from a dumpster.

After the fan's death, Greek authorities requested that all supporters be excluded from the match at the Opap Arena.

Dinamo fans were officially already excluded under a previous ruling by UEFA. AEK fan Kyriakos Mantzakidis, who runs a sports blog, said police should have prevented scores of Croatian fans from travelling to Athens.

"This was a murderous attack against ordinary people. Many people gathered in this area were not soccer fans," Mantzakidis said. "It is a failure of the government to plan properly ... it was a good decision to postpone the game. The atmosphere was too tense."

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