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Police arrest 74 Indonesian football fans after championship melee
0 Comments | AFP, September, 2005
JAKARTA (AFP) — Indonesian police said they had arrested more than 70 people for arson and vandalism after football fans went on the rampage when their team lost a national championship in the capital.
A total of 74 supporters of Jakarta's Persija football club were detained after they set fire to eight police vehicles and damaged 11 civilian cars Sunday, said Jakarta police spokesman I Ketut Untung Yoga.
He said the Persija supporters, mostly in their early 20s, went on a rampage after the team lost 2-3 in the Indonesian League championship final to Persipura football club from easternmost Papua province.
The fans also injured 22 policemen and 19 civilians in the melee.
They could face jail for charges of arson and causing malicious damage to...
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