The owner of Maccabi Netanya, Eyal Segal, published a clarification this morning (Tuesday) for the team's fans, after the club filed personal lawsuits this week against 8 fans, and in response the fans' organization decided to boycott tomorrow's Toto Cup semi-final game against Hapoel Hadera.
"The Maccabi Netanya club did not file a lawsuit against the fans' organization, but sued the fans that the Israel Police arrested around the match against Hapoel B.S. when each of them was 'caught red-handed', for acts that we the club and the fans are punished for, game after game in the last two years, in amounts of hundreds Thousands of shekels," Segal wrote.
"Despite the dozens of warnings issued on our behalf and despite the clear knowledge that a suspended sentence is upon us, those fans chose to show us all that they set the agenda on the field, even if it costs hundreds of thousands of shekels in direct damage and millions in indirect damage, even if it causes many thousands to be injured and not make it to the game The next house."
Segal continued: "We made the mistake of going towards it time after time: when we ran to the court to release detainees and not just on the eve of the cup final, when we begged station commanders to waive expulsion penalties, when we responded to every request, hoping that it would not be one-sided, when we gave up filing lawsuits in the previous cases, because We were promised that this would be the last time."
"We made a mistake when we were there, just to pay the bills for the damages that are caused game after game and the bill only gets longer. And despite the elasticity of the rope, it stretched and stretched and stretched and when "AMLAH" was activated in the game against BS after everyone knew that in the next event the conditional sentence would be applied To our duty. The long rope is broken."
The owner added: "I was a boy at the historic Maccabi field and I have also grown old as a responsible adult, since then I have been through quite a few football fields in Israel and not only in them, but I always knew how to take responsibility for my actions, I never resorted to threats or protests, or turned myself into a 'martyr', for those deviations for which I am responsible. This is the least I expect from all those 'keyboard thugs' or 'masked people' who allow themselves to deviate, but never take responsibility for their actions and the damage they cause, when they decide to prosecute them. The lawsuits filed are personal and only against them. who were caught red-handed by the police and no one knew that there was a common denominator between all the detainees when they were arrested.
I hope that this event, just like the game without an audience, will be a lesson in the history of the Maccabi Netanya club and that it will not be required again, but if necessary, it will be done until we eradicate the phenomena that harm us all."
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