Feyenoord followers vandalised Bernini fountain in 2015.

Rome authorities have banned the sale of tickets to followers of Dutch soccer membership Feyenoord forward of the UEFA Cup match towards Lazio scheduled on the Stadio Olimpico on Thursday 8 September.

Rome prefect Matteo Piantedosi reportedly took the choice to “protect town from attainable unrest” after Feyenoord ‘extremely’ followers precipitated mayhem within the capital earlier than a Europa League match towards AS Roma seven years in the past.

On 19 February 2015, rioting Feyenoord supporters clashed with Rome police on the Spanish Steps and in Villa Borghese after spending the day consuming, in defiance of alcohol restrictions in place.

Rioters threw smoke bombs and smashed glass bottles towards the Seventeenth-century Barcaccia fountain, accredited to Pietro Bernini, whose well-known son Gian Lorenzo probably assisted his father within the monument’s ornament.

The central a part of the Baroque monument was broken, with chipped fragments of the fountain seen within the waters together with glass bottles and trash dumped by the hooligans who additionally vandalised 15 metropolis buses.

The travertine fountain, in-built 1626-29, had not too long ago undergone a year-long restoration.

The clashes resulted within the arrest of fifty Feyenoord followers, with 18 individuals injured, together with 13 law enforcement officials. The injury attributable to the vandalism in Rome was estimated at €5.2 million, based on Italian information studies.

Earlier this yr a courtroom in Rome discovered six Feyenoord followers responsible in absentia of vandalising the Barcaccia fountain, handing out sentences starting from three years and eight months to 4 years.

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