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It was meant to be a celebration, but it turned into an urban guerrilla scenario from Marassi to Brignole, with police attacks and fights recorded in various parts of the city, leaving at least eight hurt and bruised, but not seriously, and requiring hospitalization. Effects of the extended night following the Coppa Italia contest in Genoa, where the confrontations had commenced on Wednesday afternoon, seven hours after the match, and persisted into the night, even before the match was officially concluded. Perhaps the violent fringes who exited the Luigi Ferraris stadium prior to the final whistle and congregated under the south bleachers and north stand in anticipation of the confrontation did not witness the final outcome of the match. In the center, approximately 300 police, carabinieri, and police officers in riot gear, equipped with armored vehicles, shields, and tear gas, departed promptly to maintain the separation between the two factions and to contain the rioters. At the moment, ten people have been arrested for the clashes, but police will work over the next few hours to identify the violent people who caused clashes and assaults with their faces covered, dressed in black, armed with bars and sticks, and who set fire to a neighborhood with firecrackers, paper bombs, and bottle throws.
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