NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has called for strong action to be taken against a number of Sydney soccer fans who allegedly joined in anti-Semitic chants and gestures at a match.
Jewish leaders and NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet have condemned the behaviour of Sydney soccer fans “in the strongest possible terms” after patches of supporters appeared to do Nazi salutes and jeered during the Welcome to Country at a packed match.
More than 16,000 fans filled CommBank Stadium to watch Saturday’s Australia Cup final between Sydney United 58 FC and Macarthur FC, but the match has been overshadowed by videos from the night appearing to show Sydney United fans partaking in racist chants and performing the Nazi ‘Sieg Heil’ salute.
Coverage of the match also clearly picked up boos and chants which almost drowned out the Welcome to Country address at the start of the match.
Video posted online appeared to show Sydney United 58 fans also chanting ‘Za Dom, Spremni’, a World War II-era slogan of the far-right Croatian Ustase movement, which was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews, Serbs and Roma during the war.
Sydney United 58 FC was founded by Croatian immigrants and was originally known as Sydney Croatia.
Read the article by Lachlan Leeming and Anton Nilsson in The Daily Telegraph.