“He is a Frenchman, a Parisian supporter who was in the German ranks”, indicated Benoît Huber, reached by telephone, recalling that the supporters of the Auteuil stand at the Parc des Princes in Paris “have links with the ultras of Cologne “.
The supporter who fell 5 meters from the stands of the Allianz Arena suffers “from a cranial and thoracic trauma and his vital prognosis is engaged”, he added.
Amélie Oudéa-Castéra deplores that “our sport is dirty”
The Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, deplored that “our sport is stained” after the violent clashes between supporters which took place in the stands before the meeting of the Europa League Conference between OGC Nice and the German club FC Cologne .
“It’s fed up, it’s really fed up that our sport is dirty in this way, that we can no longer say to ourselves that we are going with our kids in a serene and reassuring way in a stadium”, affirmed the minister at an event with sponsors organized by Sporsora.
“I have a knot in my stomach because it’s starting again, Nice-Cologne, with incredible violence, shocking images on social networks”, also said Amélie Oudéa-Castéra.
The violent clashes that occurred before the kick-off of the match at the Allianz Riviera, finally postponed for an hour until calm returned, left eighteen injured, including one seriously.
The seriously injured supporter, whose vital prognosis “is engaged” according to the Alpes-Maritimes prefecture, is a Parisian supporter who was in the German ranks. He fell 5 meters from the stands of the Allianz Arena and suffered “from head and chest trauma”, the chief of staff of the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes told AFP.
“We really have to find the solutions together to get through this, to ensure that this violence which is penetrating more and more into our society stops at least at the door of our stadiums”, estimated the minister. , specifying that she was going to closely follow the evolution of the evening in Nice.
One hour before the kick-off of the match of this 1st day of the Europa League Conference, the smallest of the three European Football Cups, several hundred hooded supporters in the colors of the Cologne club, out of the more than 8,000 present in the Ray tribune, invaded the presidential tribune, or Ségurane tribune, to go and do battle with the Nice supporters, installed in the popular southern tribune.