brawl between OL and PSG supporters, around thirty minor injuries including eight police officers

brawl between OL and PSG supporters around thirty minor injuries

A coach was burned and twenty supporters, as well as eight police officers, were slightly injured during clashes between OL and PSG fans at a motorway tollbooth, just before the Coupe de France final in Lille. This brawl took place between supporters of the two teams who were going to the Pierre-Mauroy stadium in Villeneuve d’Ascq around 6 p.m. on the A1 motorway, at the Fresnes-lès-Montauban tollbooth (Pas-de-Calais), about sixty kilometers from Lille. These are sporting events where you must above all be joyful and sporty. I condemn with the greatest firmness all violence », declared Head of State Emmanuel Macron, present at the stadium, during a public walk in Tourcoing.

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