The show on the lawn was splendid this Thursday evening during the quarter-final first leg of the Europe Conference League between Olympique de Marseille and Paok Salonika, much less in the stands and around the stadium. The incidents that started during the day continued after the meeting. Clashes and provocations between the supporters of the two teams. During the second period of the match, the Greek supporters threw several times many projectiles on the lawn, notably preventing Dimitri Payet from hitting corners. Then after the end of the match, won by OM (2-1), the more than 2,000 PAOK Salonika supporters present at the stadium were kept in the stands in the Velodrome visitor parking lot and blew up many “agricultural bombs”.
Several smoke bombs were thrown from one camp to another, above the safety nets. Marseille supporters also launched fireworks in the direction of the Greek parking lot and very strong explosions of firecrackers sounded. A few pieces of seats were also launched
10 arrests and 30 police officers injured
The police mobilized all day to supervise the Greek supporters intervened the police intervened with tear gas in the direction of the Greek fans. According to the police headquarters, around 30 police officers were injuredmainly by throwing various projectiles, smoke bombs and agricultural bombs in the stadium when they intervened between the visitors’ stand and the north bend to avoid clashes between Marseille and Greece : 27 CRS slightly injured4 a little more seriously, 2 of whom were evacuated, and 1 policeman from the Departmental Directorate of Public Security.
On the supporters’ side, 10 people were arrested: 4 people near the stadium, 3 Marseilles for violence against a person holding public authority and 1 Greek for attempting to introduce smoke bombs and a last person for throwing projectiles.