September 1 – An amateur match in Berlin descended into a mass brawl that left two people injured after fans and players from both teams exchanged anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim insults, according to German police.
The trouble apparently started when a fan of TuS Makkabi, a Berlin-based Jewish club, insulted a player from the rival team BFC Meteor during Sunday’s match.
The dispute ended in a tussle involving more than 20 people, forcing the referee to cancel the match. “According to witnesses, there were insults from both sides, so there were anti-Semitic as well as anti-Muslim insults,” the spokesman was quoted by Reuters as saying.
Last month Berlin hosted the 14th European Maccabi Games, or “Jewish Olympics” as it is also known, in a country where the Jewish population now numbers around 250,000.
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