The Greek prime minister "has not found a single word to say" about the murder of a football fan in Nea Philadelphia, the SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance party noted in a statement on Friday.
The fact that some 200 neo-Nazis entered Greece and crossed half the country to Athens, "where a young person was murdered, is not a simple case for Mr Mitsotakis to just brush off," added the main opposition party.
SYRIZA also called anew for the resignation of Citizen Protection Minister Yiannis Economou.
The incident
According to police, the fight broke out more than an hour after the visiting team’s training session ended late on Monday, and the couple had left the AEK stadium in the Athens suburb of New Philadelphia under police escort.
About 100 to 120 Dinamo Zagreb fans gathered near the stadium, where AEK supporters had gathered, and fans from both sides hurled Molotov cocktails and stones.
Greek police said the 29-year-old victim, identified only as Mihalis, was transported from the stadium to an Athens hospital, where he died.
Three Greek and five Croatian fans were injured and treated while 98 people were arrested, police added.
According to the public television channel ERT, those injured included a minor who was hospitalised after being hit in the head by a stone.
UEFA deplored the appalling incidents “in the strongest possible terms” and expressed sympathy to the victim’s family.
“Following yesterday’s violence and in consultation with the local authorities, UEFA has decided that the conditions for the match between AEK Athens FC and GNK Dinamo to go ahead tonight are not met,” the football body said in a statement on Tuesday.
“The match planned to be played tonight at Agia Sofia Stadium in Athens is at this moment postponed.”
UEFA, though, said the second leg due to be played in Zagreb on August 15 would go ahead while an alternative date will be found for the postponed match – August 18 or 19 being the suggested possibility.
AEK said in a statement that its fan was killed by “professional killers, organised criminals who crossed the country and arrived in New Philadelphia from Zagreb to join forces here with Greek criminal accomplices with the sole purpose of killing”.
The Greek champions demanded that the perpetrators be brought to justice and said it was “self-evident” that inaction “played a decisive role in this crime”.
Under a previous ruling by UEFA, Dinamo fans, who have a reputation for disorder, were barred from attending stadium matches.
Croatian media reports said about 200 fans had travelled to Athens, likely as tourists, despite the football ban.
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