A group of fans, almost all from Massa, traveling in a van and regularly in possession of a ticket to watch this evening’s match between our national team and Croatia in Leipzig for the European Championships, were blocked for hours by the police at the border with Germany. The reasons for what these fans suffered are not entirely clear at the moment, because they do not seem to be dictated by concrete risks to public order or by illegal actions committed. In particular, based on the elements learned so far, the group of fans, detained around 11pm last night at the border with Germany, could not enter Leipzig because some of them were in Dortmund for our national team’s match. against Albania last June 15th. It was in Dortmund that they were identified but released by order of a judge, without any measures taken against them, several hours after being taken to the police station in the German town. This morning, however, three of them discover that they have been banned from Leipzig due to the checks they were subjected to in Dortmund and that the other five will not be able to enter the city where the match against Croatia will be played, for the trivial fact of being in the same van as those banned fans. I will present a question to the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani to gain clarity on the real reasons that have repeatedly pushed for controls and stops of our compatriots, forced for hours to undergo incomprehensible treatment, and to have complete that it was not a series of abuses. At the moment, in fact, the group of our compatriots and fellow citizens seems to be “guilty” only of wanting to support our national team at the European Championships”. This was written in a note by the Apuan deputy of the Brothers of Italy Alessandro Amorese.
