This is the terrifying moment Liverpool fans were attacked by masked hooligans while they were eating dinner in Kiev ahead of the Champions League final.
A gang of around 20 hooligans launched the attack inside the Rooster Grill restaurant just after 8.30pm on Thursday evening. Shocking footage shows the Liverpool supporters trying to hide inside the restaurant to protect themselves, as the gang, wearing hoods and skull bandanas, hurl glasses, chairs and tables at them. Some of them were left covered in blood, with cuts and wounds to their heads and necks.
Jason Frost, 50, from Nuneaton, had just arrived in Kiev after travelling through Istanbul to watch the final, when he was caught up in the attack.
He told The Mirror: ‘We were having dinner, completely minding our own business. I didn’t come here for this. I came to watch the football. ‘We’ve been here for four hours and then we’re getting attacked.
They came at us like a pack of dogs. It just kept coming. It was terrifying.’ Another Liverpool fan, who was seen being handcuffed by police in the footage, pleaded to be released.
After he was eventually let go, he told the paper: ‘They just stormed the place – they were throwing glasses and tables. It was terrifying. Two people have since been arrested in connection with the attack, Ukranian police said, adding that they face fines and will be subjected to an investigation on charges of ‘hooliganism’.
The attack has heightened fears that there will be further attacks later today as Liverpool prepare to take on Real Madrid this evening. Vitali Klitschko, the Mayor of Kiev, said that security was ‘a main priority’ ahead of tonight’s game.
He said: ‘Security for us is a main priority and we know what happened last year in Paris,’ he said.
‘Right now more than 10,000 police man are watching and controlling the city and thousands of volunteers.’ The fan violence comes just a month after Liverpool fan Sean Cox, 53, was attacked before the Champions’ League semi-final against Roma at Anfield on April 24.
The dad-of-three, from Ireland, remains critically ill following the assault. Filippo Lombardi and Daniele Sciusco, from Italy, were charged with violent disorder, with Lombardi also being charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on Mr Cox.
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