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Author Topic: Bosnian Referee, Sabrija Topalović, has his car set on fire.  (Read 176 times)

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This is beyond shocking.

http://www.csakfoci.hu/kulfoldi-foci/a-biro-autojat-felgyujtottak-az-ellenort-vascsovekkel-agyonvertek-a-botranyosan-vegzodo-elvonalbeli-meccs-utan-video-foto

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Scandalous scenes took place in one of Bosnia’s first-class champions, and then the hooligans held up the referees on the way home and continued their misfortune.

Prematurely, in the 81st minute, the meeting of the leading Bosnian championship of the Bosnian Velez Mostar-Borac Banja Luka was interrupted after the guests scored their second goal and the home fans were so dissatisfied with the work of referee Sabrija Topalovic that they flooded into the field and chased Borac players and referees as well.

- It all happened so fast. When we scored, I turned around and saw the fans pouring into the pitch. One of Velez’s players, Zvonic, shouted “run,” I laughed at the moment, I thought there was no chance they would hurt us, since what did we do to them? But he repeated, “run, it’s not a joke,” and then I started sprinting toward the locker room. I was just thinking about running away from them, not catching up when I suddenly felt a blow to my head. At first I thought I bumped into something at the player's entrance, but I'm not that tall… I looked up and one of the fans got hit and beaten with his shoes all the time - quotes oslobodjenje.ba the away player, Jovo Lukic, who added that the Velez players behaved correctly and tried to protect them from the fans.

The guests eventually successfully fled into the locker room, but the misfortune continued long after the match, but already outside the stadium. The referees were stopped in the Lendava tunnel, their car set on fire and the inspector beaten with iron pipes.


Reading other reports the referees car was stopped in the tunnel by another car with 4 men inside, those men got out of their car, started smashing up the referees car before throwing a lit torch (?maybe a flare) into it.  The referee and his ARs were in the car at the time although managed to get out. One of the ARs was injured and had to be taken to hospital.  That is complete insanity. There's a video of police at the scene at the link above, a photo of the officials leaving the ground and what was left of the car after the attack at the link above.

Thoughts with the match officials, they must have been terrified. Get well wishes to the injured AR as well. 

It's not often that I am speechless but I am speechless!
« Last Edit: Thu 23 Sep 2021 02:37 by bmb »
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