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A fight broke out which was immediately contained by the stewards,
Paris police chief Laurent Nunez told France 2 television Eighty per cent of those here initially hesitated to come,
Mr Bensimon was quoted as saying by the Guardian, as he referred to safety concerns heightened by recent violent episodes in Amsterdam We don’t play with genocide,
one banner read, in reference to the Gaza war This is purely a scandal. Let’s imagine a France-Russia match. Would Emmanuel Macron have honoured this encounter with his presence? Obviously not. While in both cases there are two aggressor countries,
We are seeing a pogrom against Jews and Israelis unfold in Amsterdam,
The hysterical and hyperbolic demonization of Israel has led to a global outbreak of antisemitic vitriol, vandalism, and violence,
The mob who targeted those innocent Israelis has proudly shared their [violent] acts."
In the United States, the Israeli Embassy to the U.S. posted a graphic video of the violence, saying Those inciting antisemitism now have the blood of a 21st-century pogrom on their hands,
We need to show a sort of 'anti-Amsterdam' this evening,
said Arfi, the president of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF). We stopped Russia and South Africa from playing in the Olympics,
he said, referring to Russia's ongoing ban from the global sports event due to the war in Ukraine and the South Africans being barred during the reign of its white apartheid regime What we learned is that we need to be present in the public space including far away from the stadium,
We won’t stop protesting,
said one demonstrator, Omar, 30, who declined to provide his last name It’s an exceptional measure, three to four times greater than what we usually mobilize,
Paris police chief Laurent Nunez told RTL radio on Wednesday, according to the Reuters news agency There's a context, tensions that make that match a high-risk event for us,
Nunez told French news broadcaster BFM TV We do not want our head of state honoring a country that commits genocide,
said LFI deputy David Guiraud It is a high-risk match [because of] an extremely tense geopolitical context,
France does not give way to those who sow hatred,
Imagine if an association were hosting a gala for Hezbollah or Hamas. There’s no way police would allow that,
said Melkir Saib, a 30-year-old protester We will not allow any attempt to disturb public order,
It is out of the question that we take the risk of seeing a repeat of the dramatic events, of the manhunt, that we saw in Amsterdam,
