two people will be tried at the end of January

Pro-Palestinian flags were displayed in the stands and activists entered the field on Wednesday evening. The police had to intervene to put an end to “the emerging clashes between supporters”.

Two people, suspected of having entered the field on Wednesday evening during a basketball match between Nanterre 92 and the Israeli team Hapoël-Holon, will be judged on January 31, 2025, the Nanterre prosecutor's office tells franceinfo Saturday December 21. In the meantime, they are placed under judicial supervision. The two defendants were to be tried in immediate appearance on Friday but the case was postponed, specifies this source.

These two people are being prosecuted for “entry into a competition area of ​​a sports venue disturbing the progress of the competition and for violence without incapacity, for one against a police officer, for the other for reasons of religion”, adds the parquet. Five other people were presented to a prosecutor's delegate as part of a conditional dismissal for the first reason.

The Champions League basketball match between Nanterre 92 and the Israeli team Hapoel-Holon on Wednesday evening was interrupted after pro-Palestinian activists entered the field. According to information communicated by the police headquarters, the police intervened to put an end to “to the emerging clashes in the stands between supporters”after Palestinian flags were displayed. The match was interrupted “a few minutes”, specifies the police headquarters, “without feedback from players in the locker room”. The return to calm was “fast” and the match was able to resume “until its end without incident”.

Earlier on Wednesday, seized by a summary liberty procedure by the Hauts-de-Seine prefecture, the Cergy-Pontoise administrative court had suspended the closed session requested by the Nanterre town hall for this match between Nanterre 92 and the Israeli club . The match could therefore have been played before the eyes of the public.