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FIFA bans 24 Argentina fans from entering match venues

BusinessDay
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Organizers of FIFA World Cup 2018 championship have stripped 24 Argentina fans of the right to attend matches following their involvement in a brawl at a stadium in Nizhny Novgorod, Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich twittered on Monday.

She uploaded the photos of the twenty-four men who had provoked a scuffle with Croat fans before the beginning of the Argentina-Croatia match.

“These are the violent 24 men that caused the fierce fight between fans before the match between Argentina and Croatia,” Bullrich wrote. “We asked Russia to the withdraw their Fan IDs. Here, from today, they will not enter any stadium.”

“We will remain firm against the vandals who want to place themselves above the law,” she wrote.

 

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