A hundred Lille fans were arrested Tuesday in Amsterdam for violence and disruption of public order within hours of the start of the Champions League match between Lille and Ajax, police said. "A hundred Lille supporters arrested for disrupting public order, fireworks and violence," said the police in Amsterdam on Twitter, adding that an investigation had been opened.
Ajax Amsterdam receives Lille Tuesday at 21:00 on behalf of the first day of the Champions League, a competition that the Lille find after seven years of absence. Lille supporters were stopped near a subway station in the south-east of Amsterdam. One of them was wounded, the Dutch news agency ANP reported.
Some of the arrested supporters were walking on the subway tracks, according to local AT5 television. According to a spokesman quoted by the Dutch press agency ANP, supporters "were taken in two buses to cells, the Strandvliet and Duivendrecht metro stations were evacuated for a while and the traffic stopped. resumed since ".