Moment violence breaks out during France's football match against Israel as fans seen brawling and others flee their seats after more than 6,000 police were deployed to 'high risk' game

Violent scenes person breached retired successful the stands during Israel's precocious information lucifer against France successful Paris tonight.

Mobile telephone footage shows fans successful the Stade de France fleeing their seats aft a combat was reported to person taken spot during the archetypal half. 

Loud boos tin beryllium heard arsenic radical unreserved distant from the disfigured scenes - with precise fewer information guards seen passim the chaotic video.

It is unclear however the combat started oregon who was progressive successful the melee, but 1 antheral tin beryllium seen being held backmost by fans, arsenic helium attempts to complaint astatine different acceptable of supporters.

Another man, dressed successful a beanie, tin beryllium seen lasting connected 1 of the seats and shouting aggressively to radical nearby.

A dense information beingness was enactment successful spot by French officials contiguous to forestall a repetition of the unit seen past week erstwhile Israeli broadside Maccabi Tel Aviv played successful Amsterdam.

SAS-style peculiar forces and up to 6500 different information agents are connected duty, contempt organisers struggling to merchantability tickets for the Nations League game, with little than 13,000 seats reserved.

This means determination is 1 constabulary serviceman for each 2 shot fans successful attendance tonight.

Before the game, Paris constabulary main Laurent Nuñez said information astatine the Paris crippled was accordingly of utmost concern. 

'There's a context, tensions that marque that lucifer a high-risk lawsuit for us,' helium said.

Israeli information forces, including agents from the Mossad quality agency, are besides wrong the stadium tonight, the French authorities confirmed.

Only French tricolours and Israeli Star of Davids were allowed, with immoderate different flags banned from the ground.

French President Emmanuel Macron and his premier minister, Michel Barnier, person attended the match, contempt calls for it to beryllium played successful a neutral country. 

The elite RAID tactical portion has been deployed pursuing the convulsive scenes seen past week successful Amsterdam.

Fights connected to the ongoing struggle successful Palestine and Lebanon broke out, with 52 Dutch nationals and 10 Israelis arrested for nationalist bid offences.

Local pack members targeted visiting supporters successful what were described by the authorities arsenic 'anti-Semitic attacks'.

Racist chanting was besides heard from the Tel Aviv fans, including threats to termination Arabs and references to the massacre of children successful Gaza.

Concerns were raised astir tonight's crippled aft thousands of pro-Palestinians marched connected Wednesday against a arguable pro-Israel gala successful cardinal Paris.

The 'Israel is Forever' gala was primitively acceptable to beryllium attended by Israeli concern curate Bezalel Smotrich, who presently lives successful a colony considered amerciable nether planetary law.

Mr Smotrich yet pulled out, pursuing threats that an apprehension warrant would beryllium waiting for him successful France.

The Israel squad arrived successful Paris earlier this week and has been staying and grooming astatine concealed locations connected the outskirts of Paris.

There was different pro-Palestinian objection extracurricular the Front Populaire metro presumption successful Saint-Denis, a kilometre distant from the stadium, which attracted a fewer 100 radical and went disconnected peacefully. 

Ahead of tonight's game, French caput manager Didier Deschamps said his players were alert of the situation, adding: 'Obviously nary of america wrong the squad tin beryllium insensitive to specified a dense context.

'It impacts the magnitude of supporters contiguous time and everything that goes with it.'