Uefa has opened disciplinary proceedings against Tottenham Hotspur and Lazio over the behaviour of their supporters during their Europa League encounter in November.
The Italian club are being investigated over allegations their fans aimed racist chants at the travelling contingent from North London. Lazio ultras mocked their opponents' links with the Jewish community by chanting "Juden Tottenham" - using the German word for Jew - at the Stadio Olimpico on November 22 while some unfurled a banner which read "Free Palestine".
Lazio also find themselves the subject of proceedings over their fans throwing missiles and or fireworks in the stadium and what has been described as "incidents of a non-sporting nature, late team arrival at the stadium, and late handling of the team sheet."
Tottenham have been charged by Europe's governing body over separate crowd disturbances during the 0-0 group J game.
Uefa has said that it will hear the cases involving both clubs at a disciplinary meeting on January 24.
Ahead of the match in Rome, Ashley Mills, a Tottenham fan, was stabbed and required surgery to stem bleeding from a severed artery caused by a wound to the groin. At least ten visiting fans and bystanders were injured as the masked hooligans stormed the Drunken Ship pub with knives, knuckle-dusters and batons.
Two people, reportedly with connections to Rome's other Serie A club, Roma, were arrested and charged with attempted murder.
Lazio were were fined £32,500 for racist chanting in the teams' previous goalless draw at White Hart Lane in September and Andre Villas-Boas, the Tottenham manager, called for Uefa to take action after the most recent incident.
"It will take another investigation," the Portuguese said. "It happened last time and it was acted upon quickly by Uefa. We will have to wait and see if there is anything to act upon. If there is, Uefa have to act."
Giancarlo Abete, the head of the Italian football federation, has already apologised in a letter to David Bernstein, the chairman of the Football Association, blaming what he said were "mindless thugs" with "racist and anti-Semitic views".
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