“During the European Council in Spain, I also met with the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, and expressed my strong protest against the brutal behavior of the Dutch police towards Legia Warszawa players and fans,” Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced on Facebook.
I was assured of a very quick clarification of the matter
– he inquired Mateusz Morawiecki.
Two Legia players arrested in the Netherlands
Two Legia players – the Portuguese Josue and the Serbian Radovan Pankov – were taken off the bus by the Dutch police and taken to the police station after the Conference League match with AZ Alkmaar, which ended in a 0-1 defeat for the Polish team . There were fights in the stadium and the physical integrity of several members of the Polish team was violated.
According to Polish journalists present at the match, the confusion arose when local police and security forces decided to close the stadium. Legia representatives, including the players, had difficult access to the bus, verbal arguments and scuffles broke out. Eventually, police cordoned off the vehicle, which already contained a significant portion of the team.
At one point the police decided to stop the players Josue and Pankov, otherwise they threatened to storm the bus. Phone video showed Legia’s Portuguese captain being led through a cordon and handcuffed, according to journalists. The owner and chairman of the capital club, Dariusz Mioduski, became involved in the case and was heavily pulled by one of the officers.
On Friday morning, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced that he had instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take urgent diplomatic actions to verify the events that took place last night in Alkmaar, the Netherlands.
Polish players and fans must be treated in accordance with the law; there is no permission to break it
– said the head of government.
The Legia team, without the arrested players still at the police station, at 10 is to fly to Warsaw.
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Source: wPolityce