WATCH: Bosnian Soccer Fans Chant ‘Kill the Jews’
Fans of a Bosnian soccer team chanted anti-Semitic epithets in Vienna prior to a match with the Bosnia-Herzegovina team.
The some 50 fans wearing team colors were seen in a video on YouTube among several dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators at a central city plaza during a Tuesday protest, the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on Friday.
The fans chanted “Kill, kill the Jews,” the newspaper reported.
Australian police are investigating the incident, according to Der Standard.
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