Naples: Trabzonspor fans attacked ahead of match

By John Phillips

ROME 

Several fans of Turkish soccer team Trabzonspor have been attacked ahead of Friday's match against Napoli in Italy.

One Turkish fan was wounded in the face when two men riding a scooter threw objects at the rented van the supporters were travelling in on the main seaside road in the bay of Naples on Friday ahead of tonight’s game at the San Paolo Stadium in Naples, police said.

The fan was hit in the face by broken glass after one of the vehicles windows was smashed in the attack along the lungomare Caracciolo.

An ambulance took the fan to hospital after the Turkish fans stopped at a nearby piazza where passers-by called the emergency services.

The football supporter received treatment and was discharged.

Turkish fans wounded

The incident was one of three attacks targeting Turkish supporters ahead of the game which left five fans wounded, police said.

Another Trabzonspor supporter was attacked by a Naples fan wielding a belt studded with nails earlier on Friday in the Fuorigrotta area not far from the San Paolo Stadium.

And five other Turkish fans were attacked Friday afternoon by a group of six Neapolitans at Piazza San Pietro in the Majella district of the crime-infested southern city, police said.

Two of Turks were wounded and treated at the Vecchio pellegrini hospital.