It now touches almost every social area and afflicts all states, he underlined.
In the news of the fan-motivated attack, against two 14-year-olds in Nea Ionia and further to the fact that two of the three arrested are minors, the Minister of Citizen Protection, Yiannis Oikonomou, mentioned in a post on Twitter, stressing that the violence with a sports background it is no longer just about the stadiums or the days of sporting events and finds scope even at very young ages.
It now touches almost every social area and afflicts all states, he underlined.
He summarized that the pan-European networking of organized fans and their connection with organized crime and political extremism are of primary concern to European countries.
He pointed out that the drastic reduction of violence with a sports background requires a holistic plan, with interventions of a political, social, educational and police nature and added that the Police is alert and is intensively implementing its plan both at the level of prevention and surveillance, as well as in that of repression.
“With constant effort, with the aim of continuously improving at the operational level, relentlessly and with zero tolerance,” he concluded.
This fact came to remind us that violence with a sporting background is no longer only about the stadiums or on the days of sporting events and that it finds scope even at very young ages.
It touches, now, almost every social space and afflicts all states. More broadly, the… https://t.co/KGd3NEleKz
— Giannis Oikonomou (@joikonomou) August 25, 2023
Source: Skai
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