Eight Serbian football supporters were yesterday arraigned in court and charged with violently resisting arrest during a football match on Tuesday evening while a Greek man and Bulgarian faced the same charges.

Magistrate Edwina Grima remanded them all in custody.

During the Champions League match between Valletta FC and Partizan Belgrade, two Partizan supporters, holding a large banner, made their way into the stadium after climbing a perimeter wall.

The two fans then walked across the warm-up pitch before being arrested.

More ticketless Partizan supporters tried to force their way through after opening a large gate separating the stadium from an abandoned field but the police managed to push them back.

In the arraignment yesterday, the men pleaded not guilty to violently resisting arrest, disobeying police orders, threatening police, invading the pitch and bring drunk while one of them denied slightly injuring a policeman.

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