Clash Between France and Israel Fans Inside Stadium Requires Steward Intervention During Nations League Match

The Paris police informed AFP that they were unable to provide any comments at the moment as they were waiting to receive further information.

The match took place under heavy security after fans from the Maccabi Tel Aviv club were attacked in Amsterdam last week following a Europa League match against Ajax.

| Fights broke out in the north bend of the Stade de France during the start of the match between France & Israel

About fifty people were involved

Stewards intervened to try to restore calm

The CRS are ready to intervene.

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The violence in Amsterdam flared after Maccabi fans set fire to a Palestinian flag the night before and vandalised a taxi, authorities said.

Amsterdam's mayor Femke Halsema said the incidents were a "poisonous cocktail of anti-Semitism and hooliganism".

Around 4,000 police were on patrol outside and inside the stadium in Paris.

The attendance was expected to be as low as 13,000 in a stadium with an 80,000 capacity.

The incidents in the Netherlands took place with anti-Israeli sentiment and reported anti-Semitic acts across the world soaring as Israel wages wars against Iran-backed Islamist militants in Lebanon and Gaza.

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France reached the Nations League quarter-finals on after a dull 0-0 draw with Israel in a match overshadowed by tight security in and around the sparsely-filled Stade de France.

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The hosts made the last-eight after group winners Italy defeated Belgium 1-0.

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