During a football game held tonight at the Sami Ofer Stadium in Haifa, a number of fans uprooted chairs in the stadium and threw them from the stands towards the field as well as at a policeman who was present at the scene, when the policeman was not injured. Meanwhile, Haifa police officers in Sheth"P. Warriors Yes"M, arrested a man and a woman (24,31) suspected of committing the act, for questioning at the city police station. The police intend to request tomorrow the extension of the suspects’ detention in the Magistrate’s Court in Haifa.
The police said: "We take very seriously violence and bullying of any kind on and near sports fields, and in particular violence against police forces. We will continue to take action against anyone who improves public order and law and tries to harm police officers, sporting events and anywhere else."