18 injured including a Parisian supporter in "absolute emergency"

18 injured including a Parisian supporter in "absolute emergency"


The supporter who fell 5 meters during the violent clashes before the match in Nice is not German but Parisian...

Drama at the heart of the violent incidents that punctuated the pre-match of the Nice-Cologne meeting. A supporter fell 5 meters between the first and second level of the stands of the Allianz Arena and found himself, this Thursday evening, in "absolute urgency» according to the Prefect. Initially announced as a German supporter, it is in fact a Parisian supporter...He is a Frenchman, a Parisian supporter who was in the German ranks"Said Benoît Huber, chief of staff of the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes, to AFP, recalling that the supporters of the Auteuil stand at the Parc des Princes in Paris"have ties to Cologne ultras". This very alcoholic supporter who fell 5 meters from the stands suffers “of a cranial and thoracic traumatism and its vital prognosis is committed", he added.

After this pitched battle between Nice and German supporters, the kick-off of the meeting scheduled for 6.45 p.m. was postponed by 55 minutes and given at 7.40 p.m. The two clubs face each other in the first day of Group D of the Europa League Conference, the smallest of the three European football cups.

Grandstands invaded

The incidents began when several hundred hooded supporters of Cologne, out of the more than 8,000 present in the Ray tribune, invaded the presidential tribune, or Ségurane tribune, to go and do battle with the Nice supporters, installed them in the south popular tribune, noted AFP journalists in the stadium. According to the prefecture, questioned by AFP, "it was the Germans who charged". These violent clashes left 18 injured according to the prefecture, on both sides. "Calm has now returned“, declared Benoît Huber, chief of staff of the prefect.

"It's fed up, it's really fed up that our sport is dirty in this way, that we can no longer tell ourselves that we are going with our kids in a serene and reassuring way in a stadium“, For her part, regretted the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra.



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