Two men have been charged with assaulting police officers after spectators stormed the field at a country AFL final in Queensland.
Two men have been charged with assaulting two police officers after spectators stormed an AFL field during a grand final in outback Queensland.Two officers were treated at the Mount Isa HospitalThe Alpurrurulam Bats, from Lake Nash in the Northern Territory, played the local Buffs team at Legend Oval in the north-west community of Mount Isa on Saturday.
Mount Isa Police District officer-in-charge Adrian Rieck said supporters of the Alpurrurulam Bats stormed the field about 3pm due to a disagreement with a call that had been made.He said two police officers who had been on duty at the game intervened and attempted to quell the angry spectators. "Those people then turned on the two police officers that were there and commenced to assault them," Senior Sergeant Rieck said.Both were treated at the Mount Isa Hospital.
Two males, a 47-year-old and a 41-year-old, both from Alpurrurulam, were charged with several offences including assaulting police officers on duty.Lake Nash played Mount Isa in the AFL grand final on Saturday."It is disgusting that people can't attend a football game without behaving like this … it is incomprehensible that grown adults cannot attend an event without being so uncontrollable because of a call or a referee decision that it then descends into violence," he said.