It was a seemingly uneventful trip that ultimately turned out badly. This Sunday, a police officer from Auxerre (Yonne) was attacked and then knocked to the ground by Rennes supporters an hour before the kick-off of AJA-Rennes, a match counting for the 10th day of Ligue 1 football finally won 4-0 by the Auxerrois.
While a prefectural decree governing Breton fans for the meeting had been issued by the Icaunaise prefecture, a good hundred of Rennes ultras had decided not to reach the meeting point set at the toll exit of the A6 motorway by the local authorities, according to several police sources. Arriving in the city center on their own, they were finally found and then escorted by the police from the Leclerc car park to the Abbé-Deschamps visitor car park.
A broken nose and a suspect in custody
But according to our information, some supporters wanted to force the police escort to return directly to the main entrance to the AJA stadium. Clashes broke out not far from Abbé-Deschamps, and a GSP (Proximity Security Group) official was hit in the face. “We were dealing with determined people”tells us a source close to the matter. Results: a broken nose and 10 days of ITT.
Three men were finally arrested in the campsite parking lot, near the Abbé-Deschamps visitor area, after the start of the match. A man, suspected of being the main perpetrator of the attack on the police officer, is currently in police custody. He was detected positive in an initial blood alcohol test.
“The most exemplary of sanctions” requested by Bruno Retailleau
On the social network X, Bruno Retailleau, the Minister of the Interior, denounced “unacceptable behavior” and called to “the most exemplary of sanctions”. “Support for our police officers mobilized every weekend to secure matches which should be nothing other than sport and which see savages unleashed without qualms”concluded the tenant of Place Beauvau.
The Alliance police union, for its part, wanted to provide a “speedy recovery” and a “full support” to the injured police officer, castigating violence “unacceptable” perpetrated by “pseudo Rennes supporters”.
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