spectator injured at World Cup Soccer game

From The Herald Port Elizabeth:
A PORT Elizabeth man said he would be seeking legal advice after his wife was injured during Friday’s match between Germany and Serbia when she was hit in the face after a group of soccer supporters started throwing beer bottles at each other.
Jaco Olivier, of Humewood, said his wife Monique was hit in the face with a Budweiser beer bottle when a Serbian supporter hurled it at a group of German soccer fans shortly after half- time at the match at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium on Friday.
Monique was forced to go to the stadium’s medical centre as her lip was split open and was bleeding profusely. She received five stitches to her lip.
The bottle was plastic, Jaco said, but because it was still full when it was thrown it had cut Monique’s lip open.
“I do not understand why Fifa would allow people to drink from bottles in the stands. I understand it is a plastic bottle, but if that bottle is full it is heavy and it can really injure someone when it is thrown, as happened with my wife,” Jaco said.
The Oliviers said they had been really excited when Monique received two Category 1 tickets to attend Friday’s game.
“We had really good seats and were enjoying the game. We were sitting with about 20 German supporters. About five rows down there was a group of about 50 Serbian supporters. When the Serbians scored, the fans threw a bottle of beer at the German supporters.”
Early in the second half when Germany was awarded a penalty, the German soccer supporters threw beer bottles at the Serbian fans.
“I saw a bottle hit a guy on the head. Then I saw one come past my head and hit my wife in the face. Her lip was bleeding and we had to take her out of the stadium. A Fifa official helped us to the medical centre.”
At first, Jaco remained with Monique while she was being treated, but then left her with the medical staff so that he could alert the police.
However, “they told me that Fifa did not allow them past a certain point into the stands. I looked for security staff to help me, but I saw no one.”
Using his ticket, police located where the Oliviers had been sitting. However, their video recording did not show the incident, so the culprits could not be identified.
By then the match was over, Jaco said, so no one could be held responsible for Monique’s injury.
Police spokesman Brigadier Marinda Mills said police were allowed to enter the stands. But she claimed that the matter was only reported when the match was over.
She said the security guard near the incident should have alerted police to arrest the culprit for throwing the bottle