Chaos in the stands during France-Israel match

During the match played in the French capital, Paris, where the Israeli national anthem was booed, Israeli fans started a fight and assaulted some French supporters.

Raphael Arnault, a deputy from the far-left La France Insoumise (LFI) party, stated in a post on his X account that extremist Israeli fans had announced in advance that they were coming to the match to fight.

Arnault noted that numerous lynch-style incidents took place in the stadium and asked what was being done to prevent the far-right Israeli fans.

LFI party coordinator Manuel Bompard shared footage of the moments when Israeli fans assaulted French supporters, describing it as "shameful."

A student and journalist named Emmanuel Hoarau shared a photo on his X account of the moment he unfurled a Palestinian flag in the stands during the match.

In a statement on the same social media platform, Hoarau said, "No restrictive measure can make us forget the ongoing massacre in Gaza," while tagging the X account of French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau.

Emmanuel Hoarau also shared the text "Free Palestine."

French President Emmanuel Macron stated in comments to the French press before the match that they would not give in to antisemitism anywhere, and that violence and intimidation would not prevail in France.

FRANCE-ISRAEL MATCH UNDER THE SHADOW OF INTENSE SECURITY MEASURES

Protests by Palestine supporters in France against the France-Israel match at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis have been ongoing for weeks.

As part of their actions in recent weeks, Palestine supporters had called for the match to be canceled, for French fans to boycott the game, and for players on the French national team to refuse to play in the match.

Following the events that took place before and during the Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv match in the UEFA Europa League in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, on November 7, French authorities opted to implement intense security measures for the match.

Police established a security perimeter around the stadium where the match was played and subjected those approaching the area to checks.

While fans were requested not to bring bags or bottles into the stadium, shops around the stadium closed their shutters at 15:30 local time.

In the capital Paris and Saint-Denis, 4,000 police and gendarmes, as well as 1,400 stadium staff, were deployed. The number of security personnel assigned for this match was double that of the high-tension Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Olympique de Marseille matches played in the same stadium with 80,000 fans.

On the other hand, fans were prohibited from sitting in the stands near the pitch and from bringing Palestinian flags into the stadium.