{"id":381979,"date":"2025-08-29T07:41:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T07:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/381979\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T07:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T07:41:20","slug":"police-probe-hate-crime-during-elgin-city-vs-edinburgh-city-match-as-player-approached-by-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/381979\/","title":{"rendered":"Police probe &#8216;hate crime&#8217; during Elgin City vs Edinburgh City match as player approached by fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Police are investigating a \u201cdespicable\u201d hate crime which took place during an Elgin City vs Edinburgh City match.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The force said it is following a positive line of enquiry after a supporter approached a player from the sideline during the game on Saturday, August 23.<\/p>\n<p>They say the incident is being treated as a hate crime and are appealing for anyone with information on those involved to get in touch.<\/p>\n<p>Inspector Andy Meikleham, Elgin Police Office, said: \u201cThis was a despicable action and we are now following a positive line of enquiry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone with information is asked to call Police Scotland on <strong>101<\/strong> quoting reference CR\/0358662\/25.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating a \u201cdespicable\u201d hate crime which took place during an Elgin City vs Edinburgh City match.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-381979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115110928866899989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}