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SUMMARY REPORT ON THE 25TH ROUND OF THE FIRST DIVISION OF THE HNL

As part of its project "Direct Prevention of Fan Violence," observers from the Croatian Helsinki Committee (HHO) monitored matches in the 23rd round of the Croatian Football League (HNL) and noted the following incidents:

GNK Dinamo – NK Zadar 5 : 0 The match between GNK Dinamo and NK Zadar was played in Zagreb at Maksimir Stadium on 30 March 2013 before 1,000 spectators, among whom were 300 members of the fan group Bad Blue Boys (BBB). In the 13th minute the first two flares fell, and this was repeated in the 16th minute (two flares), and again in the 66th minute (ten flares). Four of them fell on the tartan track around the playing field. In the 45th minute saw the beginning of the chanting, "Mamić, you Gypsy, get out of the holy shrine." The chanting was repeated several times during the match. In the 72nd minute BBB chanted, "We beat the police like mangy dogs," and in the 80th minute "Pili smo pelina,pušili smo trave, najviše volimo Mamića bez glave." (We drank Pelinkovac, we smoked grass, but most of all we like Mamić without his head).

NK Osijek – NK Istra 1961 0 : 4 The match between NK Osijek and NK Istra 1961 was played on 29 March 2013 at 5:00 p.m. at the Municipal Garden Stadium in Osijek before 1,000 spectators, among whom were about one hundred members of Cohort (NK Osijek) and about fifteen fans of NK Istra1961, known as the Demons. In the 16th minute Cohort hung a small banner, "ANTI HNS, HHO." In the 27th minute member of Cohort lit about ten flares, and in the 43rd minute they chanted, "HNS faggots, you have fucked up football!"

NK Rijeka - NK Slaven Belupo 2:1 The match was played in Rijeka on Friday, 29 March 2013 at 7:00 p.m. at the Kantrida Stadium before about 3,000 spectators, among whom were about 600 member of the fan group Armada (NK Rijeka). The match took place in a correct atmosphere that was disrupted by chanting in the 29th minute, "Kill the Tovars" and in the 75th minute, "HNS faggots, you have fucked up football!"

GNK Hajduk - NK Zagreb 3 : 2 The match was played on 30 March 2013 at the Poljud Stadium in Split at 7:00 p.m. before about 5,000 spectators, about 2,000 of whom were members of the fan group Torcida (HNK Hajduk). The first half passed with correct fan behavior and without the use of pyrotechnics. In the 50th minute two types of pyrotechnics, seventeen in total, were lit. This was quickly followed in the 57th minute by two loud firecrackers. In the 59th minute Torcida chanted "HNS faggots, you have fucked up football!", and in the 69th minute they shouted to the former coach of NK Dinamo, Miroslav " Ćiro" Blažević, "Ćiro, you faggot." In the 70th minute Torcida lashed into the coach of the Croatian national team, Igor Štimac, with cries of, "Štimac is a Turk, he sucks big cocks," and then Štimac, you faggot," and at the end "HNS faggots, you have fucked up football!"

In accordance with the Action Plan of the HNS, the Croatian Helsinki Committee (HHO) calls on all clubs, both in the first league and the lower divisions, to warn fans that there is no place for racism, sexism, and other forms of hooliganism in stadiums and it also call for tolerance and good sportsmanship. We are calling for this because our observers have noticed the absence of announcements to the spectators in the majority of the matches.

For the Croatian Helsinki Committee

Ivan Zvonimir Čičak President