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44 French police injured at French league match
Times of India ^ | Aug 10, 2014, 05.27 PM IST

Posted on 08/10/2014 6:01:10 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin

PARIS: Violence before and after a weekend match in Corsica between Bastia and Olympique de Marseille has left 44 police officers injured, with eight requiring hospital treatment, prompting the French interior minister vowing to ban those responsible from stadiums.

French authorities said on Sunday there would be a meeting in the coming days with officials of the French football league to put in place a plan to stop such "inadmissible violence."

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve and Minister of Youth and Sports Najat Vallaud-Belkacem said in a joint statement that those responsible will face the courts and also be sanctioned, "notably by being banned from stadiums."

No fans were injured at the Saturday match at the Furiani stadium, which ended in a 3-3 draw.


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Sounds like the only ones brawling were the police themselves.
1 posted on 08/10/2014 6:01:10 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
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To: DeaconBenjamin
It must be those anonymous “yutes”?
2 posted on 08/10/2014 6:05:22 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

why do people get so stupid over a kid’s game


3 posted on 08/10/2014 6:05:35 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk
Excellent question.

Run Run run run kick run run run run run kick run run kick run run run run run run kick run run kick run run run run Run run run kick run run run run run kick run run kick run run run run run run kick run run kick run run run run

"Go Johnny! Go Suzie! Kids will sleep well tonight."

4 posted on 08/10/2014 6:09:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: yldstrk

They could make it more interesting if the players were nude.


5 posted on 08/10/2014 6:29:06 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Or if they were all dressed as clowns.


6 posted on 08/10/2014 6:49:47 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I was thinking of something like the Milwaukee Brewers’ “sausage race” costumes. Germany’s team could dress as lederhosen-wearing bratwurst, etc.


7 posted on 08/10/2014 7:08:09 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Instead of thumping the cops and each other, the Corsican fans and les fils du Midi who support Olympique should be turned loose on the Muslims who are making life hellish in so many parts of la formerly belle France.

Olympique de Marseilles? Have the fans not noticed the Muslims crapping in their gutters yet?

8 posted on 08/10/2014 9:26:21 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Program. Plan. Leader. Winner.)
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