“Four people in the crowd leaving the stadium revealed inappropriate flags and symbols and threatened security guards,” a spokesperson said.
Four people who were attending the Australian Open were questioned by Victoria Police after they “revealed inappropriate flags and symbols and threatened security guards,” a Tennis Australia spokesperson told CNN on Wednesday. “Four people in the crowd leaving the stadium revealed inappropriate flags and symbols and threatened security guards,” the Tennis Australia spokesperson said. “Victoria Police intervened and are continuing to question them.
It’s unknown if those shown in the video were any of the four that were evicted. Photos shot by Getty Images show a man wearing a T-shirt with the letter “Z” on it while he was at Rod Laver Arena during Wednesday’s men’s singles quarterfinal match between Russian Andrey Rublev and Novak Djokovic of Serbia. Tennis Australia did not say if the man in the photos is one of the four people questioned by police, and a police spokesperson told CNN she hasn’t seen images of the men involved.
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