Around 300 Montpellier supporters would have come to battle with the Stéphanois before the Ligue 1 match this Saturday at Geoffroy-Guichard.
Supporters of Montpellier, beaten 1-0 on Saturday evening in Saint-Étienne during the 12th day of Ligue 1, were sent home before the match because of a fight which left around fifteen people lightly injured, we learned 'AFP from prefectural source.
«At 5:30 p.m., several dozen Montpellier supporters got off their bus, before entering the stadium, armed with iron bars and other blunt objects, to violently oppose the Saint-Etienne ultra supporters located nearby.», Explains the Loire prefecture in a press release.
Thanks to “significant use of tear gas and a water thrower», l’intervention «fast» of the police made it possible to put an end to the scuffles, during which “ten Montpellier supporters were taken care of by the firefighters“. Four police officers were injured, according to the same source.
The 300 Montpellier supporters, getting off their bus before arriving at the Geoffroy Guichard stadium, “contravened the requirements of the prefectural decree of November 15» taken to frame the meeting.
After joining “under good escort» the visitor parking lot of the stadium, they were evacuated “for an immediate return to the Hérault department» on the orders of the prefect of the Loire, who condemned “firmly these actions».
