Police in Cyprus want fans who wear hooded sweatshirts, popular with youths and dubbed "hoodies", inside sports stadiums to be prosecuted in a bid to curb rising levels of crowd violence.
The island's police chief Michalis Papageorgiou has proposed the measures to parliament.In a letter to parliament's legal committee, the police chief said that "everyone was obliged not to obscure their face with a hood or other means when in a public place."
"We want the wearing of hoods to be criminalised in sports stadiums and wherever (groups of) hoodies disturb public order," police spokesperson Michalis Katsounotos told Reuters.
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