An Austrian football fan has been fined 100 Euros (£85) for calling a police officer “dude”.

The incident, which took place at a stadium in Pasching, Upper Austria, started when the officer told the fan to take down a banner.

However the fan declined, suggesting that the officer drop the matter. But when he called him “Oida”, which means dude in Bavarian and Austrian dialect, the fan was arrested.

The officer complained that the fan had behaved disrespectfully towards him and that the familiarity should be treated as a punishable offence.