Pro-Nazi chants before Hajduk Split-Ajax UEFA Europa League match slammed

Croatia’s Hajduk Split hosted Ajax on Thursday, but chants for pre-World War II regime precede UEFA Europa League game.

Torcida, supporters of Hajduk Split, on their way to Poljud Stadium before the UEFA Conference League game with Ajax [Ivana Ivanovic/Pixsell/MB Media/Getty Images]

Croatian leaders have slammed pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic chants by Hajduk Split football fans before their UEFA Conference League match against Ajax, while Israel’s embassy voiced shock.

Groups of Hajduk Split fans, known as the Torcida, marched through the coastal town of Split before Thursday’s match chanting: “Crush the Jews”, “Rise up Adolf (Hitler)” and “Let’s go Ustasha”, referring to the country’s World War II pro-Nazi regime, local media reported.

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Dozens of fans were detained before Thursday’s match for violence. During the match, Torcida fans set off flares and other pyrotechnics in the stands, forcing more than a 10-minute stoppage.

An investigation was opened into the pro-Nazi chants and suspects are being detained, police said.

President Zoran Milanovic in a Friday statement condemned the incident as “unacceptable and shameful”.

He urged swift action against the perpetrators to “show that there is no place in Croatia for the glorification of Nazism and Ustasha ideology”.

Israel’s embassy in Zagreb said on X it was “deeply shocked by the serious antisemitic incident that took place in Split and condemns it in the strongest possible terms”.

Conservative Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic also condemned “messages of anti-Semitism … completely at odds with the values we want to uphold in Croatian society”.

Hajduk Split, who won the game 2-1, in a statement apologised to UEFA and Ajax who “witnessed scenes which we do not want Europe to remember”, while the Croatian football federation also condemned the incident.

Croatia’s ultra-nationalist hardcore supporters have tainted the country’s image for years, notably by chanting pro-fascist slogans and displaying Ustasha symbols.

The Ustasha regime killed and persecuted hundreds of thousands of ethnic Serbs, Jews, Roma and antifascist Croatians.

Croatia were docked a point by UEFA after their fans painted a swastika on the pitch in Split in 2015, before a Euro 2016 qualifier with Italy.

The perpetrators were never found.

In recent years, the country has seen a growing tolerance for its pro-Nazi past, and critics accuse authorities of failing to sanction the use of Ustasha emblems.

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在前往波尔尤德体育场观看哈伊杜克·斯普利特队与阿贾克斯队的欧足联联盟联赛比赛之前，哈伊杜克·斯普利特队的球迷们正在欢呼。[Ivana Ivanovic/Pixsell/MB Media/Getty Images]

克罗地亚领导人谴责哈伊杜克·斯普利特足球俱乐部球迷在与阿贾克斯的欧足联联盟联赛比赛前高喊亲纳粹和反犹太口号，而以色列大使馆对此表示震惊。

据当地媒体报道，一群被称为“托尔西达”（Torcida）的哈伊杜克·斯普利特球迷在周四的比赛前游行穿过沿海城市斯普利特，高喊着：“消灭犹太人”、“阿道夫（希特勒）崛起”和“乌斯塔沙加油”，指的是该国二战时期亲纳粹的政权。

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周四的比赛前，数十名球迷因暴力行为被拘留。比赛期间，托尔西达队的球迷在看台上燃放焰火和其他烟火，导致比赛中断超过10分钟。

警方表示，已对亲纳粹口号事件展开调查，嫌疑人已被拘留。

佐兰·米拉诺维奇总统在周五发表声明，谴责这一事件“令人无法接受，令人羞耻”。

他敦促对肇事者迅速采取行动，以“表明克罗地亚绝不容忍美化纳粹主义和乌斯塔沙意识形态”。

以色列驻萨格勒布大使馆在X上表示，“对发生在斯普利特的严重反犹太主义事件深感震惊，并以最强烈的措辞予以谴责”。

保守派总理安德烈·普伦科维奇也谴责了“反犹太主义言论……这与我们想要在克罗地亚社会中维护的价值观完全背道而驰”。

以 2-1 赢得比赛的哈伊杜克·斯普利特在一份声明中向欧足联和阿贾克斯道歉，称他们“目睹了我们不希望欧洲记住的场景”，克罗地亚足协也谴责了这一事件。

多年来，克罗地亚的极端民族主义铁杆支持者一直玷污着这个国家的形象，特别是他们高喊亲法西斯口号和展示乌斯塔沙标志。

乌斯塔沙政权杀害并迫害了数十万塞尔维亚族人、犹太人、罗姆人和反法西斯克罗地亚人。

2015 年，克罗地亚球迷在斯普利特球场上画纳粹标志，随后克罗地亚队与意大利队进行了一场 2016 年欧洲杯预选赛，因此被欧足联扣除一分。

犯罪者始终未被抓获。

近年来，该国对其亲纳粹历史的容忍度越来越高，批评人士指责当局未能批准使用乌斯塔沙标志。