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Shortly after the final whistle of the match against Libya, the players of the Benin selection were targeted with bottle throwing, before being hit once on board their bus by the police.
“The match itself went quite well, but after the match, it was catastrophic” Gernot Rohr, the Benin coach, did not hesitate to react, referring to his team's trip to Libya, Monday evening as part of qualifying for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.
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While the two teams were unable to decide between themselves at the international stadium in Tripoli, the “Cheetahs” were victims of “bottle throwing”, then the assistant coach was chased down in order to be hit, also indicated the German coach of the Beninese selection. The latter and his players then locked themselves in the locker room for almost an hour and a half.
“Even the police hit us”
“When we left, unfortunately there were very, very regrettable events that we should not see in Football and there we saw that it is a country which is not yet safe. Even the police They hit us. They entered the bus, we thought it was to secure us, and then they took out the batons to hit us,” Gernot Rohr told Canal + Sport Afrique.
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Finally, the Beninese government arranged a private plane for the group, whose players would normally return to their club on their own. “We waited all night for the plane, around ten hours. The players did not sleep and we returned to Cotonou.” A story reminiscent of that of the players of the Nigeria team, who last month accused Libya of having sequestered them in an airport before being declared winners on the green carpet by the Confederation of African Football.
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