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The spirits surrounding the difficult event that took place last night (Saturday) at the end of Hapoel Tel Aviv's loss to Hapoel Haifa are not calming down.
The union prosecutor is expected to file an indictment against the Reds today following the incident in which several Hapoel Haifa fans were attacked on the floor and outside the hall, at the end of which two Reds fans were taken to the hospital for treatment with various injuries.
Immediately after the game, police forces arrived at the scene and took the relevant materials.
Also, following the public pressure exerted by, among others, the Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, it is estimated that this time the incident will be handled in a different way.
This morning the Israel Police announced that they detained one suspect involved in the fight during the night, and he was arrested "on suspicion of actual assault and sabotage and was transferred to the Police Station for questioning."
Another difficult event/screenshot, from the TV broadcasts
A preliminary investigation of the incident that began minutes after the end of Danny Franco's team's 88:87 loss to a team from Carmel shows that a number of Hapoel Tel Aviv fans came towards the goal of the Hapoel Haifa fans in order to "settle scores" with the fans from Carmel.
It is still unclear what led them to do this, since there is no rivalry between the clubs' fans.
A number of Haifa fans, who had not yet managed to leave the place, entered the hall again, and several dozen fans chased them while beating two of them severely.
On the floor and at the Haifa fans' gate there were several security guards who tried to separate, but as can be understood from the final result, they did not do their job in the best way.
Hapoel Tel Aviv were quick to condemn the incident, both in an official statement, in a tweet by the owner Ofer Yanai who promised "a deep plowing", and in the words of the chairman Rami Cohen, who was on the floor at the end in an attempt to help the Haifa fans. their part in the incident. The group intends to cooperate with the police after, according to club officials, "a red line of hooliganism has been crossed," as one of them said during the night: "Whoever did this act harms all Hapoel Tel Aviv fans and ultimately harms himself as well.
We must stop this phenomenon immediately."
However, Hapoel Tel Aviv expressed bewilderment at Minister Ben-Gvir's announcement calling for the closure of Hikal Shlomo. "Two weeks ago, there was a very similar incident in a game against Holon.
The responsible parties handed over the materials to the police, as far as we know no arrests will be made.
We have no doubt that this is not the first time that these attacking fans have been involved in such events, but where are the police here?
We pay a lot of money for security at the games, partly also to the police, and in the end, the police don't do their job.
It can't be that no people were arrested last time, and if they were, the incident probably wouldn't have happened again.
Let's hope they do something this time."
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As mentioned, the union prosecutor is expected to soon file an indictment against the Reds following the incident, when he will also take into account a police report if he gets his hands on it.
Only in the last few days was the punishment determined for the incident that went away in the game between Hapoel Tel Aviv and Hapoel Holon a few weeks ago - among other things, two radius games on a conditional basis, with the Reds having only one home game left in the regular season.
Officials in the basketball association estimated last night that at the very least the condition will be applied and that Hapoel Tel Aviv will be forced to host its upcoming games outside Shlomo Hall.
At the same time, senior officials on the board of directors of the league expressed astonishment at the director's announcement last night calling on the relevant parties to act.
"The manager also has the option to act," said one of the board members, "the name of the entire league has been damaged, not only by the fact that teams appear with weak rosters, but by the violence itself. The manager needs to come to her senses and wake up, it is possible and necessary to impose a heavy levy on Hapoel Tel Aviv in order for her to act."
The teams estimated that the next games that will be held at Hichal Shlomo will be different from what we are used to until now: "Hapoel Tel Aviv will have three home games in the upper house, at least one of them will be a sensitive game if not more so. The police and security will have to do a different job from today to ensure the peace of the away fans in the games there."
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