Scuffles broke out this Saturday afternoon in the city center of Sedan (Ardennes) between Dutch and Bastian supporters a few hours before a N2 match between Sedan and Bastia, leaving at least six injured, one of them serious, he said. we learned from consistent sources. While the match is scheduled for 6 pm, the incidents began "around 1:30 pm" between dozens of Bastian supporters and "a Dutch group," said the Ardennes prefecture, adding that "six people were injured, including one seriously ”.
According to the firefighters, the injured were taken to hospital, one of them "in absolute emergency".
"Uncontrollable elements very difficult to detect"
These Dutch supporters “had a priori come for the fight. These are uncontrollable elements that are very difficult to detect, ”continued the prefecture, for whom“ their motivations certainly have nothing to do with sport ”.
The Bastian supporters involved were themselves "independent of the club, came on their own" unlike the few hundred spectators who left Beauty Island by plane. “There was a fairly quick fight. A hundred Dutch attacked 50 Bastiais ", detailed Philippe Miziniak, departmental director of public security (DDSP) of the Ardennes, specifying that the injured were mainly Dutch.
Shock between two first ties
In the middle of the afternoon, calm had returned to the city center, according to the prefecture, which only deplored "slight degradations", such as "degraded garbage cans", but "no broken windows or affected businesses" . According to several witnesses, messages have multiplied in recent days on social networks, "inviting" Utrecht supporters to Sedan. “We were quietly at the bar and they came across us. It's incredible. We have no rivalry with Sedan, it's not like Nice or Marseille where we know it can be tense. It didn't last very long, ”said a Corsican supporter to an AFP correspondent, not wishing to give his name.
This displacement of SC Bastia to Sedan is a shock between the first two ties of group A to go up to national 1 (N1). More than 9,000 spectators are expected, including a thousand Corsicans.
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