Stewards needed to intervene on the Nations League match between France and Israel on Thursday to cease followers of each nations from clashing within the stands, an AFP reporter noticed.
Movies taken by spectators and posted on the X social media community present followers, some with Israeli flags, operating alongside the rows of seats on the Stade de France whereas different followers whistled and booed.
Stewards sporting orange bibs moved between the 2 teams to separate them.
Paris police advised AFP it couldn’t remark till it had obtained extra data.
The match is happening underneath heavy safety after followers from the Maccabi Tel Aviv membership had been attacked in Amsterdam final week following a Europa League match towards Ajax.
The violence in Amsterdam flared after Maccabi followers set hearth to a Palestinian flag the night time earlier than and vandalised a taxi, authorities stated.
Amsterdam’s mayor Femke Halsema stated the incidents had been a “toxic cocktail of anti-Semitism and hooliganism”.
Round 4,000 police had been on patrol inside and outside the stadium in Paris.
The attendance was anticipated to be as little as 13,000 in a stadium with an 80,000 capability.
The incidents within the Netherlands occurred with anti-Israeli sentiment and reported anti-Semitic acts internationally hovering as Israel wages wars towards Iran-backed Islamist militants in Lebanon and Gaza.
