Tábor - Aggressive fans of Croatian football club Dinamo Zagreb, who had attacked people in Prague, looted a gas station in Tábor, south Bohemia on Friday.
Shortly after 2 p.m. a group of 19 drunken football rowdies entered a gas station on a highway by Tábor and refused to pay the bill.
"They got cigarettes, beer, cookies, toys and even condoms. They did not react when the shop assistant asked them to pay and left the gas station, making fun of it," the spokesperson of Tábor police Miroslav Doubek told Aktuálně.cz.
The gas station employees alarmed the police. "Policemen stopped both of the vans with drunken fans by the exit of the gas station parking lot. The armed forces´ presence calmed down the alcohol-driven aggressive rowdies," the spokesperson said.
Police checked the identity of football fans and tested the drivers for alcohol. One of them had to pay a fine on the spot.
Rowdies' crusade
After that the police followed the cars to the border of the county where they came under control of České Budějovice police. .
On Thursday, Croatians kept the Prague police alert. Rowdies were rioting all day long before the team's match with AC Sparta in UEFA Cup. Among others, they threw cobble stones at people.
On Thursday, seven policemen were injured and four police cars damaged, arresting three hundred rowdies.
50 arrested, hundreds checked
A 31-year-old Croat was accused of attacking a public agent with a cobble stone.
"Fifty most aggressive fans were arrested after a security check in cooperation with the foreign police in several closest police stations. We checked the identity of the rest of them," police spokesperson Iva Knolová told Aktuálně.cz.
The rowdies' riots escalated on Thursday evening in the Myslbek shopping gallery. One of the rowdies ended up seriously bleeding after a fight.
"He suffered a head injury and was brought to the Military Hospital," said Jiřina Ernestová, spokesperson for the rescue service.
Prague police also arrested two AC Sparta fans. They are suspected of illegal gun possession.
"Pyrotechnical materials were found on them. There is a suspicion that it was explosives. The object will be inspected by the pyrotechnical expert," Knolová said.
