Posted on 11/23/2006 10:05:14 PM PST by ScaniaBoy
A supporter of the French football club Paris Saint Germanin was shot and killed by police Thursday night after a UEFA-cup game against the Israeli team Hapoel Tel Aviv.
The tradgedy occurred outside the stadium Parc de Princes in Paris after PSG had lost against Hapoel with 2-4.
According to police sources a lonely Hapoel fan was surrounded by 150 fans from the Parisian club on a street outside the areana. A policeman hurried tthere and fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.
He then fired two live rounds. Two PSG suporters were hit and one of them was killed. The policeman was forced to flee from the rest of the suporters and took refuge in a hamburger resturant. The police put in reinforcements to quench the unrest, and an internal investigation regarding the shooting was immediately initiated.
(Translated from Swedish)
A very small notice far down on the SvD homepage. Now how would this have looked if the match had taken place in Tel Aviv and the Israeli police had killed a soccer fan? Any guesses?
A lonely Jew against 150 PSG fans. Lots of rasism connected to fans of the large soccer clubs in France, Italy and the Netherlands. It doesn't say but my guess is that we are dealing with the usual "youths".
Oh, yes, Hapoel won, PSG lost - he, he, he, he!
PING!
Succer has hooligans because it's so frigging boring, the fans have way too much energy they are not expending cheering for the team.
Damn metric football.
What really made it bad is that after the cop made the shot, he said, "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLL!"
;~}
How is this news ROFL
If about Eagles or Raider fan I am intersted
Euro Succer Fan makes Raider Fan look downright sedate. Couldn't have happened to a better person...
Have the flics had enough?
There will be a lot of fallout from this. The whorehouse European media will instantly demonize the cop for excessive force. The rest of us might wonder at the level of provocation that must have existed, given the ultra PC background of recent French police work.
What is "Soccer"?
What worst in US football fans Eagles fan or Raider fan
I am raider fan I know Eagle fan would tear up Raider fan
do you have a boycott against using punctuation? or is a it some kind of haiku hybrid? or?
On a confrontation between Raider Fan and Iggle Fan...it would be hard to choose sides...
I work at Eagles games. Last season, "Spike", one of the many costumed Raiders fans, was invited to the Linc in Philly by a friend of mine, the "Birdman". (There apparently is a sub-culture of NFL fans who like to dress up as unofficial mascots, and they have a friendly fraternity). Birdman invited me to meet Mr. Spike, and when I did, the man was visibly shaking from fright. "You guys are way too over the top" he said.....nothing physical happened, just lots and lots of verbal abuse. No police or ambulances were needed.
While Eagles fans have had some publicized bad incidents in the past, I'd venture to say that it's much safer to go to an Eagles game dressed in another team's jersey than any European soccer match...not even close.
What I find revolting is that these Soccer Hooligans can not work up even half as much emotional attachment to their homeland and the defense there of as they do about a moronic sport team.
If these Frenchmen cared half as much about their country as they do about their precious football teams we would have a strong French ally on the ground in Iraq.
My God, a French firearm that's actually been fired TWICE in COMBAT?
The collectors' value on that pistol just shot up about 50,000 dollars.
I'm sure he'll get France's highest award for valor for actually firing twice before actually retreating.
Shooting at unarmed soccer fans hardly qualifies as combat no matter how rowdy they are. Granted there were 150 of them but he got away.
Still, I can't be too hard on him. It would take 30 LA police officers firing 180 rounds to score two hits.
I thought they were up to about 50 a day, just in Paris, under "normal" circumstances. How many do you have to get to for it to be a "massacre"?
That many burned cars in any major city win the US would be beyond belief.
How do the French insurance companies put up with this? Other than just removing coverage for burning? In the US, State Farm and Alstate would be putting enormous pressure on the government over this kind of stuff.
IOW, a fair fight.
It's a scheduled nap time built in to European TV programing. We have that colored swatch pattern here, but in Europe they have a bunch of gay guys standing in a circle, bent over hugging each other. Or maybe they are all looking for a dime somebody dropped, I'm not quite sure. I've never stayed awake long enough to see if they found it.
This got me to wondering how many vehicles these "yoots" could torch here in Lubbock. I would bet against anything more than 3 before they were all gunned down like rabid dogs. Maybe Allstate et al should encourage gun ownership just for that reason. New York and Massachusetts insurance carriers may be in some difficulty though.
Here are some more info - from Jerusalem Post:
Nov. 24, 2006 3:06 | Updated Nov. 24, 2006 9:11
Paris: 1 dead as cop defends Hapoel fan
By JPOST STAFF AND AP
A plain clothes police officer shot into a crowd of skirmishing soccer fans Thursday as he tried to protect supporters of Hapoel Tel Aviv, killing one person and injuring another, police said.
The 11 p.m. (2200 GMT) incident at a McDonald's fast food restaurant near the Parc des Princes stadium occurred after Hapoel Tel Aviv's 4-2 victory over Paris Saint-Germain in a UEFA Cup match.
The police officer, who was not identified, was trying to protect a Hapoel Tel Aviv fan set upon by some 150 PSG supporters, police said.
The officer lobbed tear gas when the crowd went after the Hapoel supporter then fired two shots, "having been driven into a corner," police said.
Two PSG fans were injured, with one dying later, police said. The victims were not identified.
The Paris prosecutor's office and the National Police General Inspection unit, which probes incidents involving law enforcement officers, were investigating, police said.
Hapoel Tel Aviv spokesman Amir Lubin told Army Radio that throughout the match there was a very hostile atmosphere towards Hapoel and its supporters. "The Israeli crowd, who came to support their team, really wound up the local fans," said Lubin.
"We could hear the chants of the French crowd which were in no way connected to football," he continued.
"It was obvious that the PSG supporters were enraged by the result of the game but we didn't imagine it would come to this," he said.
What if the cop is a black nigerian Muslim, and the victim is a white french Jew, or Christian? What do you suppose the French media will do then?
If they blame the cop and fire him, do you think we could still expect a great massacre of Citris cars and Renaults?
Probably so. I'm not sure that firing a cop would get the yoots' blood up as much as one of their own being killed, but it doesn't take much.
Did the Lonely Jew duck - Twice...?
Watch for the usual bunch of "soccer bashers" to arrive on this thread with their trite and shopworn insults. They allegedly don't enjoy the sport, yet flock to every FR soccer discussion that is posted! I'm glad to read the French police were working to gain control of the situation.
~ Blue Jays ~
There has been a few of those already. But I take it on my chin, and I won't start any rampage or car-be-cues!
:-)
Then they must be supermen. I used to go to Raider games at the Coliseum. Once I remember counting 18 different fights going on simultaneouly in different areas of the stands.
The cops landed a helicoptor in the middle of the field and then brought in horse mounted cops to regain control of the stadium.
Regards.
I once saw an ad for French MAG rifles which had been converted from that awful French cartridge to 7.62 NATO.
The add read "Converted French Rifles. Never been fired and only dropped once."
Hilarious.
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Well it's on first page in Le Figaro
(http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/20061124.WWW000000201_un_supporteur_du_psg_tue_par_un_policier.html)
He took refuge in a McDonalds. Typical to run to anything American for protection.
What is said here http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/france/faits-divers/0,,3359488,00-sarkozy-avait-dit-etait-policier-.html
is that the mob was screaming death to the Jew...
Moreover in this http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/20061124.WWW000000419_supporter_tue_la_piste_raciste.html
it is also said that they wee screaming death to the Jew, death to the N... (the policeman was Black) and making monkey noses and doing the Nazi salute....
Seems like some Europeans are still living in the WW1-WW2 timeframe, still hate the Jews. Anti-semetic fools, and they say Americans haven't learned from history.
It would have looked like a single Israeli cop confronting a mob of 150 Israelis to protect a single French fan.
A lonely Jew against 150 PSG fans.
So what is that French cop who singlehandedly took on the mob to save that lonely Jew? Chopped liver?
Yeah, the cop was French but let's give credit where credit is due.
Lots of racism connected to fans of the large soccer clubs in France, Italy and the Netherlands. It doesn't say but my guess is that we are dealing with the usual "youths".
Most likely.
The typical "soccer basher" is likely upset that top-tier soccer players are stronger, faster, fitter, and financially richer due to the fact they have risen to the top of the world's most popular sport. It puzzles me why the bashers actively scan for the "soccer" keyword to participate if they allegedly despise the sport so much.
~ Blue Jays ~
Prayers for the victim. May he rest in peace.
Post of the thread.
I understood the victim lived. The perpetrator was killed.
May he rest in pieces.
Hey Mike I wonder Romey would cover this on Monday show he was off on Thursday I think Friday
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