The clash appears to have been between fans of the same club. A young man was slightly injured after receiving a stab wound on Sunday during a fight between supporters on the sidelines of the Ligue 1 match between Lyon and Nantes, we learned from a source close to the matter.
“It happened in a few minutes” at the exit of the stadium, “one person suffered a slight injury following a stab wound to one thigh”, according to this source. The public partly remained confined in the stadium, waiting for the police and security agents to restore calm, she added.
“The Six Nine Pirates”
According to the regional daily Le Progrès, the clash took place between OL supporters, several individuals having attacked members of a new collective called “the Six Nine Pirates”. According to BFM Lyon, the clash would have taken place with members of the Bad Gones, the club’s historic supporters group. The antagonism would be palpable between the two groups.
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“These events are unworthy of our coat of arms”, for his part wrote on X the general director of Olympique Lyonnais Laurent Prud’homme, condemning “very firmly” these “clashes and attacks”.
On the social network, the prefect of the Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes region Fabienne Buccio https://twitter.com/prefetrhone/status/1842978331396124690 “unacceptable violence” which “calls for exemplary sanctions”, while thanking the Rhône national police for having “intervened very quickly”.
