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Racism in Football

...... After February 2007 match between Catania and Palermo in Sicily, hooligans killed a local policemen by throwing stones and an explosive device at him. Only a few days later, violence erupted in Germany following a game when 300 hooligans mobbed the police, attacking 39 policemen and inflicting serious injuries on several of them. Finally, in April 2006, fans of the visiting Chemnitz team attacked Turkish-owned stores in St. Pauli. During the game about 200 Chemnitz fans chanted anti-Turkish epithets which invoked memories of the holocaust. One of the chants by the Chemnitz fans was Hoo-Na-Ra, which is the slogan for Hooligans, Nazis, Racists, a network of right wing groups that operates in various German cities.[3]
Modern Movement of Right Wing Infiltration
One of the alarming shifts regarding recent hooliganism is that recently it has become more mainstream and less confined to the working classes and other fringe groups. Because hooliganism has been often linked to incidents of racism and anti-Semitism, it has become popular among right-wing extremist groups. This is even more troubling because the nature of the right wing element many times only has a political agenda. In other words, the traditional hooligan attends a football match to