Pitch invasion
Police in the Belgian city of Ghent will play a team of hard- core violent hooligans at soccer on Saturday 'to break the stereotype role-playing of hooligan and law- enforcer', police said, Reuter reports from Brussels.
'For the gendarmerie the first aim is to let these young, tempestuous soccer fans discover the human being behind the uniform,' the Ghent gendarmerie said. It did not explain how the hooligans' team would be selected.
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