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European Soccer Fans Are Brutal
allen griggs
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***This banner is 150 feet long, and 80 feet high. I have never seen anything like this in an American stadium. The decapitated guy is Steven Defour, who used to play for the home team. He moved to play for the arch rivals, so now he is hated by the old home team. The color of the home team is red. Interesting they made the sign in English.***
BRUSSELS (AP) - Belgian authorities and the country's football federation on Monday sought action against Standard Liege fans who displayed a massive banner showing a drawing of a beheaded Anderlecht player ahead of their weekend match.
Sunday's banner reading "Red or Dead" referred to the Standard colors and also showed a drawing of a masked man with a huge knife and the head of Anderlecht midfielder Steven Defour, who used to play for Standard before moving to arch rival Anderlecht.
Condemnation was near-universal and Ann Cossement of the interior ministry said that authorities were looking at punishment to go as high as a five-year stadium ban and a fine of 5,000 euros ($5,000) because of "incitement to hatred against one person."
The image raised chilling comparisons with the recent beheadings of the extremist Islamic State group.
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