{"id":336636,"date":"2025-12-26T14:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/336636\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T14:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T14:04:08","slug":"police-hunt-fan-who-threw-smoke-bombs-at-inverness-caley-thistle-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/336636\/","title":{"rendered":"Police hunt fan who threw smoke bombs at Inverness Caley Thistle game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson added: &#8220;Taking pyrotechnics into a sporting stadium is a criminal offence and highly dangerous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Inquiries are ongoing to identify the person responsible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Caley Thistle previously said it feared it could face financial implications over the incident, and threatened to ban supporters who threw pyrotechnics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, a probe was launched after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c6p1pdmnrn0o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a 13-year-old boy was injured<\/a> when he was struck with a pyrotechnic at Inverness&#8217; stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The use of pyrotechnics in Scottish football has risen in recent years, with action called for to tackle the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scottish government is consulting on whether to extend powers to ban football fans from games for offences like using pyrotechnics and online abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson added: &#8220;Taking pyrotechnics into a sporting stadium is a criminal offence and highly dangerous. &#8220;Inquiries are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-336636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}