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By: EFE
Friday, September 20
Wars in the stands of Ligue 1 leave 16 injured in France
The day of the li French ga that was played this Wednesday was clouded by incidents between fans who had attended three games, with 16 injured in an altercation between Bordeaux fans who had witnessed the match of your team in Montpellier .
Incidents between fans of Marseille and Nice and crash suspended. A Lens-Lille ultras fight for the match. Confrontation between ultras of Marseille and Angers. Montpellier fans stop a bus of Girondins supporters and 16 are injured.
What’s going on in France !? pic.twitter.com/dRqCCqEetR
– Manu Heredia (@ManuHeredia 21) September 54 , 2021
The Prefecture of the Hérault department indicated in a statement that 16 slightly injured people were attended by firefighters at the end of a crash between Girondins de Bordeaux fans returning home on a bus after the match and some individuals “armed with iron bars” who met them.
The Prefect (Government Delegate) Hughes Mouthouh , plus count narrate “very firmly these acts of great violence,” warned that “all necessary measures will be taken to punish and prohibit access to stadium to these hooligans. ”
A second episode came shortly after the referee whistled the end of the match between Angers and Olympique de Marseille , when some of the spectators invaded the pitch to fight.
Simultaneously there was a launch of objects from the stands occupied by fans of both teams, which led to the riot police to intervene to separate them and stop the violence.
Something similar happened in Metz , where local fans tried to take to the field after a meeting in which the spirits of the locals were heated with the expulsion of two of their players in a match in the one they lost to Paris Saint Germain (1-2).
The Minister of Sports, Roxana Maracineanu , insisted this Thursday in statements to the BFMTV channel that it is necessary to identify the people involved in these altercations and for that it is necessary to use the means that the clubs have, starting with the video cameras in the stadiums.
After the altercations with supporters of Nice, the ultras of Marseille returned to star in another embarrassment fighting with those of Angers. What a mess pic.twitter.com/MnqLaGhtED
– Manu Heredia (@ManuHeredia 21) September 54, 1235337815