Sarajevo fans outraged at Zenica police: They beat us while handcuffed and cursed our mothers

The Association of FK Sarajevo fans "Horde zla" issued a public statement via their Facebook page, reports Patria News Agency. 

Sarajevo fans are outraged by the behavior of the Zenica police towards them at yesterday's match in Zenica between hosts Čelik and Sarajevo. 

- The new season of the BiH Premier League in football has also seen the start of problems with fans who follow their clubs to away games.

Ask yourselves, if it weren't for these fans, would this whole circus called the BiH Premier League even make sense? Who would it be played for? What has been a customary practice for years is the attitude of the Zenica police towards fans coming from Sarajevo, specifically Horde zla yesterday. Clearly, the case of Aner Kasapović is not enough for the competent authorities to order a reduction in repression, unless we want another incident.

Or perhaps someone wants it? It is sad to say, but what the "gentlemen" police officers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the ZE-DO Canton feel towards us is classic and obvious hatred. The display of every form of anger, force, and belittling is guaranteed during any conflict.

Yesterday's systematic separation of cars into smaller groups and directing them into wrong streets, which were mostly full of home fans, thereby creating conflicts, was intentional by the Zenica police. Of course, each of these conflicts in several locations in the city ended badly for us because, for the umpteenth time, we suffered repression from the police, misdemeanor and criminal charges. The scenes of arrests themselves are shocking. With handcuffs on their hands, on the ground, heads facing the floor, lie young men who came to support their club just 70km from Sarajevo, as if they had come to another country.

Kicking, cursing the mothers of Sarajevo, and every other method of insult causes a feeling of disgust in any normal mind that witnesses or hears it from the side. The media and the public in BiH are not even aware that complexes are being worked out on us from the capital. Police officers are venting their frustrations, personal problems, and the economic situation in Zenica, providing full support to home fans in their cowardly provocations, attacks, and similar actions. Something similar happened to us a few months ago on our way back from Banja Luka. The beatings we received in Žepče, again from the ZE-DO Canton police, cannot be put into words. They were mostly on the ground, with boots, rifle butts, and whatever else. All of this, of course, in the dark, when no one sees and can potentially record it.

On this occasion, we call on the joke called the Football Association of BiH to calm down its hooligans in the police force. Besides the fact that one of the worst footballs in Europe is played in BiH, you want to drive away the few of us who watch it. If that is your goal, then shut down this grayness, abolish the entire league. We have lost enough lives, there is no need for more. Every blow you strike makes us stronger... but one of your blows can be fatal, as Aner's was. You never know who you are hitting on the ground, without feeling or mercy. Perhaps someone with a heart condition, someone with special needs, someone you absolutely shouldn't. This is not just a case with us in Zenica; police repression is present throughout the country, but this Zenica repression borders on the limits of normality. Morally, it has long ceased to exist.

I LOVE YOU SARAJEVO! - states the Horde zla statement.