East of Lille this Sunday, several members of the Anstaing-Chéreng club were violently attacked by supporters claiming to support the opposing team.
Scenes of chaos this weekend in amateur football. Several players and members of the Anstaing-Chéreng club, based east of Lille, were violently attacked on Sunday following their victory against Lomme in the sixth round of the Coupe de France, the northern club said.
After this meeting between two amateur clubs located near Lille, the pitch was invaded and several supporters claiming to be from the Lommois team attacked players and members of the club.
“Tonight we would like to support all the children and families who attended the end of the match. Amateur football is tarnished this evening by these images and this vision of horror caused by a group of pseudo-opposing supporters who had just come to fight: who comes onto a sports field with a telescopic baton, a bat, a knife …?”wrote the Anstaing-Chéreng club on its Facebook page.
The videos are shocking (…) There were ten to fifteen minutes of great nonsense
Gaëtan Plancq, president of the Anstaing-Chéreng amateur club
The team based east of Lille specified that “three players (had been) molested with a bat and beaten on the ground”that“a mother from the club (was) currently in hospital” and that“a young club volunteer (was) going to have to have a nose operation”.
“The players are celebrating with our supporters, and there are around fifteen pseudo-supporters who arrive to demolish our playersexplained to theAFP the president of the club, Gaëtan Plancq, who provided information to the gendarmes on Monday afternoon. The videos are shocking (…) There were ten to fifteen minutes of total nonsense before the intervention of the firefighters and then the police”he added.
Three complaints were filed on Monday, and others should follow, including that of the club, said Gaëtan Plancq.
Opposite, the Lomme club expressed its “deep regret regarding the regrettable incidents which occurred at the end of the meeting”Who “were not initiated by people dismissed from our club, but by external individuals of whom we are also victims”. “We strongly condemn the unacceptable behavior that took place”continued the club.
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