Two young fans of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer (football) team have admitted to setting fire to the team’s office in Bayit Vegan. The two are expected to be indicted in the upcoming days.
One of the two, Matan Navon, told journalists that the attack was not motivated by racism. “I want to tell the whole state of Israel that we didn’t do anything because of racism… It wasn’t because of the Chechnyans,” Channel 10 quoted him as saying.
The arson attack was widely assumed to be connected to protests in the days leading up to the attack against the inclusion in the team of two Muslim players from Chechnya.