around twenty people in police custody after the match – Libération

In total, around forty people were arrested on Thursday November 14 following the meeting at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis. These arrests gave rise to 24 police custody but for “nothing serious”, according to police sources.

A tense match which ended at the police station for around twenty people. Following the very dull match between France and Israel (0-0) on Thursday, November 14, around forty arrests occurred near the Stade de France in Saint-Denis. 24 of them resulted in placements in police custody but for “nothing serious”according to police sources.

France-Israel, whose sporting challenge was anecdotal, took place under very high security. More than 4,000 police officers and gendarmes were deployed to maintain calm among the 16,600 spectators who came to watch the match, the lowest attendance in history for a Blues match at the Stade de France.

Fight in the stands

The Paris police prefect Laurent Nuñez congratulated himself on France 2 this Friday, November 15, on a match which “very well done from a security point of view”. The only problem was that a fight broke out in the stands between supporters of the two teams. The incident, which led to two arrests, “was immediately contained by the stewards” according to Laurent Nuñez.

One person was immediately arrested and then a second after the match, thanks to video surveillance, continued the police prefect without specifying whether the two people in custody were supporters of the French or Israeli team. According to a police source, this fight came from certain “attitudes of supporters felt as provocations” but no injuries were reported. At the end of the match, three Palestinian flags were also displayed in the stands, said the same source.

More broadly, no incidents were reported around the stadium, neither during the arrival of supporters, nor after the match. The latter took place in a context where scenes of violence occurred last Thursday, November 7 in Amsterdam, following a European Cup match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel-Aviv.