Among the groups taking part, according to the police, were two soccer hooligan organisations already known to the police called "Faust des Ostens" (Fist of the East) and Hooligans Elbflorenz (Florence of the Elbe Hooligans), as well as members of the National Democratic Party NPDD).
The new scheme is believed to be part of a wider response to curtail the free movement of terrorists across European borders, but there's no reason why it can't also be directed at curbing the free movement of football hooligans as well.
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Scrolling through hashtags like #fascistlove, #instafascio (Insta-fascist) and #duxmealux [translation: "Duce (Mussolini) is my light"], I found myself in a world populated by CasaPound militants (CasaPound is a party that charmingly defines itself as "third millennium fascists"), Lazio and Roma FC hooligans, as well as your run-of-the-mill Mussolini fanboys.
They have boasted of hooligan activity, as well as being proud BNP supporters.
This backfired horribly when senior members of the RWHFG started publicly playing up their links to the ICF (West Ham's notorious 70s/80s hooligan group) as well as offering out other fans on Facebook, calling them "left-wing fucks" and bafflingly accusing them of being Antifa activists.
It's the city of right-wing hooligans, skinheads as well as the Autonomous Nationalists party who have elected officials in the city council.
Michael B. Nifong, the Durham County prosecutor, labeled the team "hooligans" as he investigated the case.
It follows Luka and Flash, a pair of adolescent football hooligans as they traipse through a dead-end purgatory of boozing, fucking and fighting.
After the miners' rampage, Iliescu thanked them for their "attitude of high civic conscience" and disparaged the demonstrators as "hooligans," as part of a "right wing neo-fascist international conspiracy".
