Just before the opening night of the play “Travelling With PAOK” at the
Technis Theatre in central Athens, the hooligans, which some witnesses associated with Olympiakos, stormed the theatre and hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails while swinging machetes and injuring one of the theatre’s employees.
The hooligans were heard shouting abuse against PAOK and other obscenities that shocked the theatre-goers who had come for the premiere of the play.
Taking advantage of the absence of any police, the intruders caused some damage to the scene, but the performance did take place with an hour’s delay.
“They broke the whole theatre, the doors, the windows, they all stormed in chanting abuse,” says the theatre’s managing director, Diagoras Chronopoulos.
The play tells the story of two young women who travelled from Thessaloniki to Athens to attend a pop concert and happened to be on the same train as a number of PAOK fans.
The incident took place two days after PAOK’s 1-0 victory over Olympiakos that saw the Reds get eliminated from the Greek Cup.
source: sportingreece
