Overview
- Local authorities reported no riots or clashes and said the detentions were intended to prevent possible disorder ahead of the Champions League fixture.
- Those detained were held for violating a municipal assembly regulation and taken by bus to the Mathildelaan police station for identification and questioning.
- Several detainees did not have match tickets, and multiple fan accounts allege cancelled tickets and orders to leave Eindhoven after release.
- Detained supporters describe being interrogated without a lawyer and treated harshly, while an Italian lawyer publicly called the measures an abuse of rights.
- Eindhoven’s mayor Jeroen Dijsselbloem had declared a high-risk security zone allowing preventive searches, and Italy’s foreign minister said embassy staff and DIGOS officers are on site, with four PSV fans also detained elsewhere in the city.