@papa & co:
Here's a quick translation of the statement given by Olimpija's representative (of course, ha must be a liar too, right?) present in person on today's meetings in case you bothered to read it instead of just putting the blame to the other side ... ![]()
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Today at 1PM, we had a meeting in the Tivoli attended by League Director Feichtinger, vice president of the Austrian Ice Hockey Federation Schramm, Head of Security Service responsible for the event, representative of the Police and the representatives of the clubs. We looked at the situation in the hall where the Security Service put a physical barrier (a fence) separating bottom three rows of the seats from the rest. Following a request made by the representatives of the league, an aprox 5 cm wide gap between the glass behind the bench and the glass covering the bench itself were tied togehther, too (probably just in case something was thrown from the fourth row). Security Service has further enhanced the fence with cables and made it impossible to be separated.
For the match, 30 additional security guards were provided, of which 15 would stand in immediate proximity to Salzburg bench.
At 2PM, another meeting took place with RBS's director and the head of the Pierre Page's security representative. At the meeting, Feichtinger read all the requirements that were sent to Olimpija after the Match 2 and noted that the club had fulfilled all the requirements. Representatives of Salzburg, together with the police and security service also went through a complete protocol of arrival and departure of Salzburg players (to and from the hall) and protection before, during and after the game.
It was also agreed that after the second period, the beer stand selling drinks in front of Tivoli would close so the visitors wouldn't gather close to the RBS bus.
The meeting ended and the entire delegation went to re-view the situation in the hall. It was noted that the safety was taken care of as requested.
Shortly before 3PM the Salzburg representative announced that the team did not feel safe in Ljubljana and that they have been on the way to Salzburg.
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