Louis VI the Fat
11-27-2006, 21:21
Oh dear:
Witnesses said the black policeman opened fire late Thursday on a mob of fans from the French first division side Paris Saint Germain who were chasing a Jewish supporter of the Israeli team Hapoel Tel Aviv.
"It seems like quite serious racist insults were used. 'Dirty nigger' and 'dirty Jew'," Paris Prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin told reporters.
The Hapoel supporter was being pursued by around 100 PSG fans when plainclothes policeman Antoine Granomort intervened, according to the police.
At first he let off a tear gas canister to try to disperse the assailants, but then himself came under attack, and was kicked to the ground by the mob, police said.
Witnesses said he shouted "police, police" before opening fire, killing 25-year-old Julien Quemener and injuring Mounir Bouchaer, 26.
"The most likely assumption is that the same bullet injured Bouchaer, passing through his lung, before hitting Quemener in the heart," Marin said.
Police said the PSG fans appeared to be far-right sympathisers and were chanting "France for the French" as they confronted the Hapoel supporter.
PSG has struggled for years to control a hard core group of hooligans, with far-right tendencies.
Read more here (http://football.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-6236630,00.html)
The clashes between PSG fans reflects the recent racial disturbances in the country.
Two weeks ago, a motorway service station near Nantes was destroyed as two PSG groups clashed using baseball bats. Last season, Auxerre police had the bizarre sight of Paris fans fighting each other within their own enclosure. Similar clashes since then in Toulouse, Lens and Paris.
While the far-right nationalists have long been a fixture at the ground, recent years have seen another group has emerge at the opposite end - the Tigris, which is more racially diverse.
"They are Arabic, French, black, Asian - but the Boulogne are white skinhead racists, and the others don't like that," explained supporters club leader Larasse Haracet.
"This is the reason for the war between the supporters."
Patrick Mignon, a researcher and sociologist at the French National Institute for Sport and Physical Education, explained that as a result, there is political dimension to the clashes between the PSG fans, mirroring the problems in the city's suburbs. Read more here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_football/4828852.stm)
Oh well, november was already nearly over and there hadn't been a good racial skirmish yet. City of Lights, gah! Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQp8vARJ72E) of Paris 2006, City of Fights. :wall:
Post 1789 :shame: Vive la France :no:
Witnesses said the black policeman opened fire late Thursday on a mob of fans from the French first division side Paris Saint Germain who were chasing a Jewish supporter of the Israeli team Hapoel Tel Aviv.
"It seems like quite serious racist insults were used. 'Dirty nigger' and 'dirty Jew'," Paris Prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin told reporters.
The Hapoel supporter was being pursued by around 100 PSG fans when plainclothes policeman Antoine Granomort intervened, according to the police.
At first he let off a tear gas canister to try to disperse the assailants, but then himself came under attack, and was kicked to the ground by the mob, police said.
Witnesses said he shouted "police, police" before opening fire, killing 25-year-old Julien Quemener and injuring Mounir Bouchaer, 26.
"The most likely assumption is that the same bullet injured Bouchaer, passing through his lung, before hitting Quemener in the heart," Marin said.
Police said the PSG fans appeared to be far-right sympathisers and were chanting "France for the French" as they confronted the Hapoel supporter.
PSG has struggled for years to control a hard core group of hooligans, with far-right tendencies.
Read more here (http://football.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-6236630,00.html)
The clashes between PSG fans reflects the recent racial disturbances in the country.
Two weeks ago, a motorway service station near Nantes was destroyed as two PSG groups clashed using baseball bats. Last season, Auxerre police had the bizarre sight of Paris fans fighting each other within their own enclosure. Similar clashes since then in Toulouse, Lens and Paris.
While the far-right nationalists have long been a fixture at the ground, recent years have seen another group has emerge at the opposite end - the Tigris, which is more racially diverse.
"They are Arabic, French, black, Asian - but the Boulogne are white skinhead racists, and the others don't like that," explained supporters club leader Larasse Haracet.
"This is the reason for the war between the supporters."
Patrick Mignon, a researcher and sociologist at the French National Institute for Sport and Physical Education, explained that as a result, there is political dimension to the clashes between the PSG fans, mirroring the problems in the city's suburbs. Read more here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_football/4828852.stm)
Oh well, november was already nearly over and there hadn't been a good racial skirmish yet. City of Lights, gah! Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQp8vARJ72E) of Paris 2006, City of Fights. :wall:
Post 1789 :shame: Vive la France :no: