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The scuffles took place on Thursday at the Stade de France\u00a0stadium, in the northern outskirts of Paris, where the two teams faced off in a UEFA Nations League game.<\/p>\n
The Israeli anthem was booed and whistled before kick-off while Israel’s players were jeered at times when they got the ball.<\/p>\n
Clashes erupted during the match near where the Israeli fans were sitting, with some throwing punches.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some spectators held up Palestinian flags that had been banned inside the stadium.<\/p>\n
The game came just days after several nights of violence surrounding the match between Israel\u2019s Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax of Amsterdam\u00a0in the\u00a0Dutch capital.<\/p>\n
Maccabi fans committed acts of vandalism by tearing down a Palestinian flag, attacking a taxi and chanting anti-Arab slogans, according to city authorities.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, about 4,000 police officers were on the streets around the Stade de France along with 1,600 security personnel.<\/p>\n
The 80,000-capacity stadium was barely a fifth full as the French had boycotted the game over Israel’s two-front aggression, which has killed 43,736 people in Gaza and 3,386 others in Lebanon since early October 2023.<\/p>\n
However, French President Emmanuel Macron\u00a0attended the game alongside predecessors Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy,\u00a0and Prime Minister Michel Barnier,\u00a0in an show of solidarity with the Israeli regime.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are living in a schizophrenic moment. On the one hand, international institutions recognize the existence of a genocide in Gaza. On the other, we have a French government that reluctantly agrees to call for a ceasefire,” French lawmaker Eric Coquerel said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis match, which everyone knows is second rate, is attended by President Macron, the prime minister, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande. How do you expect [Israeli prime minister] Benjamin Netanyahu to hear any message other than: \u2018You can continue to raze Gaza\u2019? France is looking the other way.”<\/p>\n
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