Photo: FRANCOIS LO PRESTI / AFP / Getty Images
By: EFE
Photo: FRANCOIS LO PRESTI / AFP / Getty Images
By: EFE
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 .
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.
The discipline commission of the Professional Football League
will have to examine those episodes in the next few days.
By If all this were not enough, this seventh day of the league in France was mourned by the traffic accident involving a minibus with Olympique fans Lyon in which one of them was killed and eight others wounded.
The beginning of the season is being marked by a succession of clashes between the public after almost a year and means of having been absent in stadiums.
The 22 August was even suspended the Nice-Olympique de Marseille and last Saturday there was an invasion of the grass by the fans in the regional duel Lens-Lille.
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