{"id":120123,"date":"2025-10-13T21:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T21:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/120123\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T21:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T21:53:10","slug":"photographer-describes-horrific-dublin-attack-by-german-soccer-supporters-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/120123\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer describes \u2018horrific\u2019 Dublin attack by German soccer supporters \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A British photographer has described as \u201chorrific\u201d and \u201cinhumane\u201d an attack that she and a friend were subjected to by a group of men who were in Dublin<\/a> to watch soccer team FC Schalke play Bohemians<\/a> football club.<\/p>\n

Carly Clarke and her friend Steve were set upon by a group of \u201cultra\u201d fans from the German club as they marched through the city centre on Saturday afternoon ahead of their friendly match with the League of Ireland<\/a> side. <\/p>\n

A video of the incident had been viewed more than seven million times by Monday evening.<\/p>\n

Ms Clarke, who is based in London, told The Irish Times she had travelled from Britain for a friend\u2019s photography exhibition and book launch. When walking around Dublin on Saturday, she encountered the group comprised of FC Schalke ultras, who were chanting as they marched through the streets ahead of the game, which they lost 3-2.<\/p>\n

They walked towards Ms Clarke on the Luas tracks on Lower Abbey Street where she was taking photographs. As they approached, she said she \u201crealised this was not a good bunch of people\u201d.<\/p>\n

Before she could get out of the way, one man stepped ahead of the group and pulled her camera, which was round her neck, she said. That resulted in \u201ca jolt, and I wasn\u2019t expecting it\u201d. Her 70-year-old photographer friend, Steve, then tried to intervene but was repeatedly kicked.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe got thrown to the ground … that was a bit of a shock. He couldn\u2019t get up off the ground and I was trying to help him but it was like a stampede of people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\"PhotographerPhotographer Carly Clarke who encountered the group of FC Schalke fans in Dublin city over the weekend <\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe when I was down there with him, so many people were just kicking him. I was shocked and I didn\u2019t know what [situation] I was in. I was really scared, worried for him more than anything. They were barging through me, but they weren\u2019t doing anything to me. But he was being kicked repeatedly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was eventually able to get him up but people wouldn\u2019t help, nobody cared. It was horrible … horrific. I couldn\u2019t believe the inhumanity, to be honest with you … how people were treating an elder man. It was just disgusting behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the crowd had passed, a number of local women approached them and helped with his injuries. <\/p>\n

They plan to lodge an official statement to garda\u00ed and have already been issued with an incident report number based on their initial reporting of the attack.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed said they were \u201ccarrying out inquiries into an alleged assault\u201d and were awaiting a formal statement of complaint. <\/p>\n

FC Schalke issued a statement saying it was aware of the incident, which it described as \u201ccompletely unjustifiable\u201d. It said about 2,000 of its fans had travelled to Dublin to support the team and what happened did not reflect the character of the club or its supporters. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe photos that have been circulating on social media since yesterday afternoon are disturbing and hard to process,\u201d it said of a video posted on X by Ms Clarke, which was recorded by a bystander.<\/p>\n

FC Schalke, which also offered its sympathy to the victims, said \u201cthis type of incident cast the club and our community in a light that is not fair\u201d to the club and its \u201cpeaceful fans\u201d and was \u201cdamaging to the culture at the club\u201d and its identity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe utterly condemn these incidents and, as announced, will rigorously investigate the events and take appropriate action.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British photographer has described as \u201chorrific\u201d and \u201cinhumane\u201d an attack that she and a friend were subjected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34758,9,10,52,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,6435,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-120123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-bohemians","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-dublin","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-league-of-ireland","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}