{"id":40422,"date":"2019-08-09T21:22:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T21:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40422"},"modified":"2019-08-09T21:22:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T21:22:42","slug":"ozil-kolasinac-miss-arsenal-opener-due-to-security-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40422","title":{"rendered":"Ozil, Kolasinac miss Arsenal opener due to &#8216;security incidents&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"99.7215189873\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Arsenal has left Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac out of the squad for its English Premier League season opener due to ongoing &#8220;security incidents&#8221;, the London club said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The pair\u00a0<span>escaped unharmed from an\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/07\/arsenal-star-mesut-ozil-targeted-knife-wielding-bikers-190725203950854.html\">attempted carjacking<\/a><span>\u00a0last month, when Kolasinac, a 26-year-old Bosnian international, fought off armed men attempting to steal Ozil&#8217;s car.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">In a statement on Friday, Arsenal said the two players would not\u00a0be travelling to Newcastle for Sunday&#8217;s match &#8220;following further security incidents which are being investigated by the police&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The welfare of our players and their families is always a top priority and we have taken this decision following discussion with the players and their representatives,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re liaising with the police and are providing the players and their families with ongoing support,&#8221; Arsenal said, adding:\u00a0&#8220;We look forward to welcoming the players back to the squad as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><span>On July 25, Ozil, a 30-year-old former German international, was<\/span><\/span>\u00a0boxed in while driving by motorbike riders wearing helmets in north London.<\/p>\n<p>A video clip of the incident showed Kolasinac, who was a passenger in the car, jumping out of the vehicle to confront the masked aggressors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the footage, the riders were seen to be armed and were filmed brandishing knives at Kolasinac.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving his car, Ozil ran into a Turkish restaurant as Kolasinac attempted to take on one of the assailants.<\/p>\n<p>Waiters and chefs from the Likya restaurant rushed to the aid of the football stars forcing the gang to flee empty-handed, the Daily Mail reported at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal has left Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac out of the squad for its English Premier League season opener due to ongoing &#8220;security incidents&#8221;, the London club said.\u00a0 The pair\u00a0escaped unharmed from an\u00a0attempted carjacking\u00a0last month, when Kolasinac, a 26-year-old Bosnian international, fought off armed men attempting to steal Ozil&#8217;s car. In a statement on Friday,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}