Europa League final: Fans wreak havoc at Liszt Ferenc Square, Budapest – PHOTOS
Liszt Ferenc Square has fallen due to foreign fans arriving for the Europa League final. This was reported by the mayor of Terézváros (District 6 of Budapest) on Facebook early Wednesday evening.
Tamás Soproni wrote that the fans arriving for the EL final simply destroyed the venue.
“The 4,000 plants that we planted the other day, designed by students, are dead. Broken bottles, vomit, rubbish everywhere, there are flower beds that have simply disappeared due to trampling,”
he wrote in his post.
Soproni said the organisers had not asked for their help. They had not been approached to provide increased law enforcement or public order personnel on the day, nor had they been informed of where the supporters would be gathering or the route of the diversion. As he wrote, he thinks that the police and the capital were at least consulted, but it is clear that the organisers did not act with due diligence.
“Tomorrow morning, my colleagues and I will be on site and will start cleaning up as soon as we can. We will, of course, repair the damage as soon as possible, but we will submit the bill to the National Event Management Agency Nonprofit Ltd. I hope that after the game we will not have another victim of our public space,”
he concluded.
Here are some pictures of the disaster the fans left in Liszt Ferenc Square:
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6 Comments
Budapest not prepared for the fans, real glasses given to fans, Irish bar run out of beer, I am from England and a man utd fan, I book holiday incase we beat Seville in semi, if Manchester United fans come bigger problem, Budapest very naive, always problems with mixing football fans, Roma ultras looking for trouble, plus polish, but don’t run out of beer too, not very well prepared
Budapest not prepared for fans, I was in the square, Irish bar ran out of beer not good, not plastic glasses given, and some different fans come looking for trouble
These people are animals and you have to treat them as such. From the minute they cross the border coming in until they leave, pen them in, corral them, and herd them to the venue. Reverse the process after their little game. It’s also incredible that these dingbats get so worked up about a stupid soccer match; meanwhile, their governments have been turning their countries into third-world cesspools and curtailing their basic rights on the pretext of “public health,” and they didn’t say a peep. Pathetic.
We walked past this SMASHED ter, at 15.00 hours.
The MASS number of Police we sighted in the ter, what went WRONG ?
Why no Police Horses present ?
Someone forgot or didn’t plan this with much thought.
Its a bloody disgrace what has occurred – the destruction and littering of rubbish, but we STUFFED up in our planning in what occurred not THINKING – the “animal” supporters visitors to our City, would behave like out of control herd of animals.
In each country where soccer is played, it is the same. Supporters wreck the place but also trains and bushes, windows of shops. It is not about supporting or celebrating but damaging as much as possible.
Each country in the past 20 years, if not longer, needs police from the entire country, even abroad, and the army to try to reduce the damage as much as possible (fights included and people arrested).
Sorry for the students and flowers but they should better have decorated the place after the supporters left.
No matter the country they are all terrible (including setting soccer stadiums on fire).
Paying exorbinent amounts of $ for grown men to play, then enticing other people w. more money than sense to come for a big drunk is something that no longer benefits the general society. Does nothing to promote sports for kids, for the future. Add to that the A-holes who dress up to pretend to be sexes which don’t exist (women with penises, beards, or 300lb adults in fairy outfits that look like the clothing was sprayed on their bodies etc.)The belligerent money grubbing BLM or Environmental who flew there, JOKE. Adults have ruined everything. How many jurisdictions have experienced that when alcohol is included in large events the lowest of the low humans behave in public the same way that they behave in private behind closed doors. Now you really get to know your relatives & neighbours.