The Paris police arrested 14 fans in Parc de France, most of them from Maccabi Haifa

The explosive game in Paris passed relatively quietly, but some Haifa fans were arrested.

PSG fans were amazed by the "takeover" of the greens in the stands: "failure"

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26/10/2022

Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 06:50

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Despite the fear of riots, disturbances and clashes between the Maccabi Haifa fans and the Paris Saint-Germain fans, the match yesterday (Tuesday) in Paris went relatively quietly.

Over 1,000 police officers secured the explosive game, which was classified as a high-risk event by Paris police.

The game passed without unusual clashes between the fan camps, which were separated by police forces.

The police took a heavy hand against some fans, and arrested 14 of them during the evening, some of them Maccabi Haifa fans.

According to reports in France, the 14 arrested include several fans who were arrested for lighting flares in the stands occupied by Maccabi Haifa fans, a French fan who picked Israelis, and another French fan who "robbed" the Israelis.

Ultras PSG waved several Palestinian flags throughout the evening, and at the beginning of the second half pulled out a larger flag with the inscription: "Gaza exists, Gaza is fighting. Free Palestine" - but the tensions between the crowds did not turn into a real confrontation.

A relatively quiet evening.

Maccabi Haifa fans in Paris (Photo: GettyImages, Lionel Hahn)

According to police estimates, about 5,000 Maccabi Haifa fans were present at Parc de France last night, several times the number of tickets allocated to the green fans in the first place.

A significant part of the Haifa fans who managed to buy tickets for the stands of PSG fans, were moved to an isolated area in the stand that was supposed to belong to the French, so that the police could cut through the crowds.

PSG fans and also local journalists who were there were very surprised by what was defined as "an omission that allowed the Haifa fans to take over the stadium".

"It's an unprecedented shame. The Haifa fans took advantage of PSG's broken system for selling tickets to take over the stands. I've never seen anything like this at a PSG game," stated the team's reporter Hadrian Garnier, and many fans expressed their displeasure on social networks.

In the end, they settled for the convincing victory.

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