A full-blown attack from the sky.
Heavy projectiles fell on the coaches, filled with Marseille supporters returning from Clermont on the night of March 2 to 3, as they passed near Saint-Étienne on the A47.
“We avoided the worst,” slips a source close to the investigation, referring to an attack coming “very probably” from people placed on a bridge over the motorway.
“An ambush,” believes the Saint-Étienne public prosecutor’s office, in charge of the case.
One of too many episodes of the kind which have punctuated the last months of French football.
At the end of October in Marseille, several supporters' buses were targeted.
In November and January, fans were attacked from outside their vehicles after matches in Montpellier and Paris.
In February, a stone attack targeted the Nice supporters' bus, which was traveling on the A46 motorway returning from a meeting in Lyon, injuring one of the supporters of the Riviera club.
“It is a significant phenomenon of the season, it attracts our attention”, underlines the National Division for the Fight against Hooliganism (DNLH).
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