The Cologne fan fell 5 meters during the violent clashes before the match in Nice.
Drama at the heart of the violent incidents that punctuated the pre-match of the Nice-Cologne meeting. A German supporter fell 5 meters and is inabsolute urgency» according to the Prefect. After this pitched battle between Nice and German supporters, the kick-off of the meeting scheduled for 6:45 p.m. was postponed to 7:40 p.m. The two clubs are to face each other in the first day of Group D of the Europa League Conference, the smallest of the three European football cups.
Grandstands invaded
«The man fell five meters between the first and second tiers of the stands. The accident happened after the incidents that occurred in the stadium“Said Benoît Huber, chief of staff of the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes, to AFP.
The incidents began when several hundred hooded supporters of Cologne, out of the more than 8,000 present in the Ray tribune, invaded the presidential tribune, or Ségurane tribune, to go and do battle with the Nice supporters, installed them in the south popular tribune, noted AFP journalists in the stadium. These violent clashes left eleven injured according to the prefecture, on both sides. “Calm has now returned“, declared Benoît Huber, chief of staff of the prefect.
