Photo Gallery The Cottbus Inferno
Right-wing fans have become a growing problem for German football, though teams have tried to address the issue. Energie Cottbus, for example, recently banned the fan club Inferno from attending the team's games. But the right-wing extremists continue to be active.
Police in Austria cancelled a planned football match between Germany's Energie Cottbus and Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv because a bus-load of far-right supporters of the German club, from a group known as Inferno, was travelling to the match, reports said. Here, Inferno members during a match in 2010.
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Because of their racist tendencies, Energie Cottbus has banned Inferno members from attending their games. But they were travelling to Austria on the weekend to watch the test-match with Maccabi Tel Aviv.
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Radical fans have long been a problem in German football. Here, fans of Hertha BSC Berlin light fireworks during a match against Energie Cottbus in 2012.
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