Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon and her deputy John Swinney have condemned the actions of the Rangers fans who rampaged through the streets of Glasgow in celebration at the club’s title victory.
Mr Swinney said some fans had expressed “vile anti-Catholic bigotry” and breached Covid rules in a “loutish and thuggish fashion” on Saturday.
“I’m limited as to what I can say this morning because there’s an ongoing police investigation but the conduct … was absolutely reprehensible,” the SNP minister told the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland programme on Monday.
“Some of them went on to behave in a loutish and thuggish fashion in George Square – devastating property, circulating and expressing vile anti-Catholic bigotry in the centre of the city of Glasgow.”
Around 15,000 Rangers fans defied Covid warnings against large gatherings and massed in George Square to celebrate their team lifting their first Scottish Premiership trophy since 2011.
