A BBC Panorama documentary entitled "Stadiums of Hate" that was first aired on June 4th showed football fans in Ukraine beating up south Asians at a match as officials were looking on, Ukrainian skinheads in fight training with a far-right organisation in the forest, hooligans making Nazi salutes and a police officer denying that Nazi salutes had been made.
An estimated 12,000 people were detained at the National Stadium, most enduring some form of torture, until the center was shut in November 1973 in preparation for a qualifying match for the World Cup soccer championship, said Carmen Luz Parot, who is filming a documentary about the stadium.
The documentary, "Euro 2012: Stadiums of Hate", was broadcast on May 28.
A recent BBC documentary, "Euro 2012: Stadiums of Hate," revealed the extent of racist and anti-Semitic activity at Polish and Ukrainian domestic games.
Most notorious was a BBC documentary about racism in stadiums, but people also had very low expectations about the readiness and quality of the infrastructure.
The rights of victims and their families, principally to avoid distressing memories of crimes, were cited in the case of Gannon's Beyond Reason as well as Jimmy McGovern's drama-documentary about the Hillsborough football stadium tragedy.
The tournament, which runs until 1 July, is already under the spotlight after a BBC Panorama documentary exposed incidents of racism at stadiums in both Poland and Ukraine.
Sébastien Foucan jumped over the gap of the opening of the stadium roof in the Parkour documentary "Jump Britain".
I knew I'd be ready for that patented acerbic Sundance quirk later on, but I opted for The Worker's Cup, a documentary about the migrant workers building the stadiums for Qatar's 2022 World Cup.
Ukraine has come under particular scrutiny, with a recent Panorama documentary highlighting numerous episodes of racial abuse occurring within stadiums.
