Several LOSC supporters present during the terrible attack on Tuesday evening gave their stories of these moments of horror when they feared seeing their lives end. For a football match.
They saw death come close to them, according to what one of them told La Voix du Nord this Wednesday evening. On the sidelines of the Champions League match which will oppose LOSC and Bologna at 9 p.m., in Italy, supporters of the northern club fell into an ambush on Tuesday, when there were around thirty of them, seated in an Irish pub, place of the aggression which could have marked the history of football with a new dark day. During this attack, two Lille supporters were injured with knives, one of whom is still being treated in hospital.
Injured fans are out of danger
“The one who is hospitalized, his nose was hanging, he was only holding on to a few pieces of skin”, rewinds to our colleagues a supporter present during the attack. “The place behind was packed with people. For me, it was an ambush. They had gone around the bars to see where we were and attack us, they were armed with knives, batons, iron bars. We seen death”, confides another to La Voix du Nord.
Several Italian media, citing local police, reported that some 80 individuals, some armed with metal bars and belts, attacked around 30 Mastiff supporters late last night. The two Lille supporters who were stabbed and hospitalized Tuesday evening are out of danger. The first, hit in the face and chest, is still hospitalized. The second, hit in the stomach, came out.
In a press release published this afternoon, the club condemned “unreservedly this cowardly and intolerable attack, which contravenes all the values of football and popular supportism”, providing “its support to the supporters who are victims of these attacks” and wishing them the “best recovery”.
