A day after they arrived in Israel, two Hapoel Tel Aviv fans were arrested on suspicion of organizing a disturbance during their team's loss against Charleroi in Belgium which caused a half-hour disruption in the FIBA Champions League this week.
The police demand that they be released on bail and on condition that they be removed from basketball courts in Israel and around the world, in light of the severe damage they allegedly caused to Israeli basketball and its many fans. The arrest followed a Supreme Court ruling that rioting at a foreign site in which a team or an official Israeli delegation was participating would be treated as if it had been carried out in Israel. Yarkon District investigators used television footage to identify them.