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Betar fan in a post on the networks: "Dozens of masked Hapoel fans attacked me, it was like a lynching" | Israel Today

2022-01-25T13:16:42.984Z


Less than a day after the game at Teddy Stadium where the Reds defeated the team from the capital, one of the local team fans announced that he was attacked close to the Malcha mall: "When I already felt really in danger I hit the gas the hardest and ran away"


The games between Betar Jerusalem and Hapoel Tel Aviv always bring together an audience of thousands, many passions, tensions and, unfortunately, quite a few cases of violence.

After it was reported in the morning that two Hapoel Tel Aviv fans were apparently attacked at the central bus station in Jerusalem by a fan of the team from the capital, now in a long post, one of the Betar fans - Eviatar Akuka - said that yesterday (Monday), he was severely attacked. Rival fans.

"When we hear the word lynch, we imagine military events, terrorist attacks over the years or dark places like this and others. But will the word lynch remind anyone of the junction between Malcha Mall and Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem on a sporting holiday before a football game? Until last night I would say no. .

A week ago my little brother (an IDF fighter) called me and said to me: "Dude next week I usually go to Teddy's." About the team we love so much from the day we were born. And yesterday the day of the game my brother and I arrived and set off. The game, and it must be said that there was a slight optimism despite the situation (this is how it is against Hapoel) ".

Akuka also wrote: "But suddenly, just before the belief in pluralism entered a 90-minute freeze and everyone went to their stand. A bus and dozens of masked Hapoel fans unloaded from it. One of them approached me at the window and knocked wildly and said: "This is our city" and added: "There is a Betar fan here" (I was wearing yellow) and of course I did not respond. Then in a few seconds the whole crowd, about 60 people, around the vehicle kick it, break the windows with the help of punches and try to get us out of it. And when I already felt really in danger I pressed the gas hardest and ran away.

I stopped near the mall, called the police and a complaint was filed.

But even when filing the complaint, the police were surprised that Hapoel fans attacked Beitar fans (and Hapoel as well) and did not get out of the vehicle at all (cold in the evening in Jerusalem).

"They wrote down a few things on a page and sent me to matters, frightened, in the market and mostly immersed in memories where I was at similar events but then I had a weapon and I was wearing an olive uniform and not a coat and scarf in a football stadium."

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Source: israelhayom

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