”IFK Norrköping believes that this is a regrettable deviation from the previous exclusion strategy, which means that the specific individuals who commit crimes should be prosecuted, rather than a collective punishment being applied”, the club writes on its website.
Previously, Malmö FF has also expressed itself critically, and in a joint statement from AIK, Hammarby and Djurgården, the Stockholm clubs emphasized that they are ”deeply concerned about the development”.
According to the police's new directives, which will apply from and including this weekend's 24th Allsvenskan round, one can read, among other things: "If order and safety at the event are disturbed by unauthorized masking in organized form carried out by visitors to the event, the organizer shall interrupt the event until the unauthorized organized masking has ceased".
It does not have to be as dramatic as many paint it. The measure is just to unmask, then you can play on, Per Engström, group manager for the National Operational Department (Noa), previously said to TT.
IFK Norrköping plays against AIK on Monday.
