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Liverpool fans stabbed before Napoli Europa League tie
A total of six Liverpool fans were injured on Wednesday night Two Liverpool fans have been stabbed in Naples ahead of the Europa League tie in the city.
Liverpool are due to play Napoli at the team's San Paolo stadium on Thursday evening.
Merseyside Police said a total of six Liverpool fans were assaulted in the Italian city on Wednesday night.
Two men, aged 27 and 53, were taken to hospital with stab wounds. Their injuries are not thought to be life-threatening, a police spokesman said.
The BBC's correspondent in Rome, Duncan Kennedy, said doctors had told him the 53-year-old, Alexander Phillips, was due to be released later.
Three arrests
The Foreign Office said he was from Liverpool.
The 27-year-old man, who has asked not to be named, is expected to remain in hospital for observation.
It is understood 10 Italian youths with sticks and at least one knife were involved in the attack.
There are also reports of a family of four being injured. It is not clear whether they are included in the group of six fans Merseyside Police have been made aware of.
Naples police said three people had been arrested over that incident.
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With the terrible events occurring in Naples I would love if we won the match tonight, not for Roy he can **** off , but for the fans assaulted without provocation.
YNWA for all involved with these terrible events
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Napoli Ultras went hunting Liverpool fans, say police
• Authorities seize baseball bats and metal bars after arrests
• All five English fans injured now released from hospital
Italian policemen show weapons seized after the arrest of three Napoli Ultras ahead of tonight's Europa League fixture against Liverpool.
Italian police have admitted that gangs of Napoli's hardcore Ultra fans went out hunting Liverpool supporters to attack in the city last night.
There were a number of incidents ahead of the club's Europa League match at the Stadio San Paolo tonight, which resulted in five English people – two of whom were stabbed – and one Italian being taken to hospital.
Their injuries were not deemed to be serious and all were discharged after receiving treatment but it has prompted police to step up security ahead of the game.
There were three arrests made after the attacks last night and police recovered an array of weapons and Ultra paraphernalia from the home of one.
Among the weapons seized were a baseball bat, several five-foot long aluminium bars with numerous strategically-placed screws protruding and a six-foot wooden plank.
"Ultras went out seeking English fans, absolutely," said Filippo Bonfiglio, head of Digos, the local department which deals with terrorism and political activity.
"There are groups of violent supporters here in Naples so we could hypothesise something like this would happen but it was impossible to prevent every attack everywhere."
Trouble started at around midnight when Ultras began throwing things at English fans in a pizzeria. The Italian owner went out to remonstrate and that was when he was injured.
Two Liverpool fans were injured after being attacked by a group of Napoli supporters before the most serious attack took place around 4am near the central Piazza Garibaldi.
A group of four fans were walking back to their hotel when they were followed and beaten up by a gang of 20 to 30 men.
Police said Gary Brown, 50, from Hertfordshire, and his son Adam, 17, received a knife injury and bruising respectively.
Brown's 23-year-old son Daniel was not injured but family friend Ross Hazeldene, also 23, sustained a knife wound.
All three of the arrested men have criminal records and one has been convicted of football-related violence and is banned from Napoli's stadium.
There will be around 1,200 police on duty for tonight's match. "We are organising more patrols to prevent these kind of attacks," added Bonfiglio. "But the city is so great – 1.5m inhabitants – that it is impossible to prevent and control everything."
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