Champions League: Hundreds of Frankfurt football fans move through Naples

A few hundred Eintracht Frankfurt fans paraded through the southern Italian city ahead of the Champions League game at SSC Napoli.

Champions League: Hundreds of Frankfurt football fans move through Naples

A few hundred Eintracht Frankfurt fans paraded through the southern Italian city ahead of the Champions League game at SSC Napoli.

The supporters gathered in front of a hotel on the port at noon and then walked together to Piazza del Gesú in the historic center of Naples. The supporters were accompanied by police and carabinieri forces, and a helicopter was also circling overhead. There were initially no incidents during the march.

In the run-up to the round of 16 second leg, there are great concerns about riots and riots. Fans from Frankfurt are therefore forbidden by the Prefecture of Naples to go to the stadium in the evening. Eintracht also canceled special flights to southern Italy. Nevertheless, hundreds of followers traveled to Naples. On Tuesday evening, some of them were shot at with flares in a bus.

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