ROME: Italian police said on Wednesday they had detained 13 far-right activists in Verona for an assault on Moroccan soccer fans who were celebrating their historic qualification for the World Cup quarter-finals.
The supporters were revelling in the center of the northern Italian city on Tuesday evening after Morocco’s victory over Spain when they were attacked by a group of men dressed in black with their faces covered, the police said in a statement.
Those held “were identified by investigators as militants of far-right groups in the city,” it said.
![Morocco fans celebrate qualifying for the quarter finals on Las Ramblas in Barcelona on Tuesday. (Reuters)](https://www.arabnews.com/sites/default/files/2022/12/07/3575621-380028143.jpg)
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