“Looks like a hurricane has passed”, reacts moved and angry Laurent Dudout, the manager of the Espacio Piscina restaurant near the Abbé Deschamps stadium in Auxerre (Yonne). Of clashes between supporters of AJ Auxerre and Olympique de Marseille broke out around 2 p.m. this Saturday, a few hours before the meeting between the two teams. The chairs, the tables or even the dishes of the establishment were used as projectiles.
According to the Auxerre police, around 150 Marseille supporters and 80 Icaunais supporters clashed violently. Two of the three CSR platoons initially engaged near the stadium went there, ie about thirty men. There was no arrest “It was too violent, too fast. The urgency was to separate the two groups”, explains a police source. A dozen minor injuries were identified by the police. None were hospitalized.