NEW DELHI - An Indian man has been arrested after upsetting his football-mad neighbours by tearing up a Portugal flag, hoisted for the World Cup, when he mistook it for the emblem of a controversial Islamist group.
Social media footage showed Deepak Elangode pulling the flag off and violently tearing it into strips before casting the fragments onto the roadside in the small town of Panoor in Kerala state. The flag had been put up by local fans of star player Cristiano Ronaldo and his Portuguese team. They rushed to confront and rebuke the vandal, local media outlet Mathrubhumi reported.
A police officer in Panoor confirmed to AFP that Elangode was arrested for causing a public nuisance, but later released on bail. Portugal’s red-and-green flag bears a resemblance to that of the Social Democratic Party of India , and local reports said the man was expressing his disdain for the group.
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