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Fans of Feyenoord airy flares during the Europa League Group F shot lucifer betwixt Sturm Graz and Feyenoord astatine the Merkur Arena successful Graz, Austria, Thursday. (AP Photo)
Dozens of Feyenoord fans banned from travelling to Lille for the last Champions League radical crippled betwixt the 2 clubs person been turned distant oregon arrested astatine the border, according to French authorities.
The Prefecture du Nord, which represents the French authorities successful the Lille region, said 64 fans of the Dutch squad person been refused introduction to France and that 17 person been arrested and taken into custody.
Police officers seized pyrotechnic devices and assorted objects that could beryllium utilized arsenic weapons during their checks, the prefecture said.
France’s interior ministry said determination was a “real and superior hazard of confrontation” betwixt fans of the 2 teams erstwhile introducing the question prohibition up of Wednesday’s lucifer astatine the Stade Pierre-Mauroy.
The French authorities said Feyenoord’s travels are often marred by “public bid disturbances owed to the convulsive behaviour of definite supporters oregon individuals claiming to beryllium supporters of this team,” and they cited respective examples of instrumentality violence.
In May 2022, determination were convulsive clashes successful France betwixt Marseille and Feyenoord fans extracurricular the Stade Velodrome stadium earlier the instrumentality limb of their Europa Conference League semifinal.
There were besides convulsive clashes successful Lille metropolis halfway erstwhile the nine played Bulgarian broadside Levski Sofia successful the Europa League successful 2010.
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