The 300 MHSC supporters who had traveled by bus to Saint Etienne for the 12th day of Ligue 1 were sent home after a fight shortly before the match. The clash with the Saint-Etienne ultras left 15 injured, including 10 supporters and 4 police officers.
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Supporters of Montpellier, beaten 1-0 on Saturday evening at Saint-Etienne during the 12th day of Ligue 1, were sent home before the match after a fight which left around fifteen people lightly injured.
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.
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Thanks to “consequent use of tear gas and a water throwing device”the “rapid” intervention 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 supervise the meeting.
After joining the stadium visitors' car park “under good escort”, they were evacuated “for an immediate return to the Hérault department” on the orders of the prefect of the Loire, who “strongly condemned these actions”.
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