152 arrested for racism

BELGRADE – Belgrade police arrested 152 fans for racist insults at a Serbian second division match between local team Rad and Novi Pazar late on Wednesday .

“Police officers have arrested 152 Rad supporters, including 47 juveniles,” police said. “The offenders shouted slogans inciting racial, ethnic and religious hatred and intolerance.”The home fans shouted anti-Muslim slogans at Novi Pazar players and police moved in to remove them from the stadium.Novi Pazar is a Muslim-majority town in western Serbia.Some ultranationalist Serbs are hostile to Muslims, often glorifying the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of some 8 000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs.It was a second outbreak of racism at Serbia’s soccer grounds in four days after a black player was abused during a first-division match on Saturday.Nampa-Reuters”The offenders shouted slogans inciting racial, ethnic and religious hatred and intolerance.”The home fans shouted anti-Muslim slogans at Novi Pazar players and police moved in to remove them from the stadium.Novi Pazar is a Muslim-majority town in western Serbia.Some ultranationalist Serbs are hostile to Muslims, often glorifying the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of some 8 000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs.It was a second outbreak of racism at Serbia’s soccer grounds in four days after a black player was abused during a first-division match on Saturday.Nampa-Reuters