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  • Officer kills man in Paris soccer mob (Racist French Fans Attack Jews and Black Policeman)

    11/27/2006 1:46:45 PM PST · by Stultis · 26 replies · 1,117+ views
    International Herald Tribune ^ | 24 November 2006 | Katrin Bennhold
    ... a black police officer seeking to protect a Jewish fan of a visiting Israeli team shot and killed one man and wounded another.Antoine Granomort, 32, rushed to the aid of a French fan of the Hapoel Tel Aviv club late Thursday after the Israeli team defeated Paris Saint-Germain ... About a hundred fans cornered the two men ... shouting racist and anti-Semitic epithets at them and making Nazi salutes ...Both victims were identified by the police as members of a far-right group supporting Paris Saint-Germain ...Overt racism is a common occurrence at the ... home stadium of PSG, with...
  • Police killed soccer fan (in Paris!)

    11/23/2006 10:05:14 PM PST · by ScaniaBoy · 42 replies · 1,423+ views
    Svenska Dagbladet ^ | 24 Nov. 2006 | PARIS TT
    A supporter of the French football club Paris Saint Germanin was shot and killed by police Thursday night after a UEFA-cup game against the Israeli team Hapoel Tel Aviv. The tradgedy occurred outside the stadium Parc de Princes in Paris after PSG had lost against Hapoel with 2-4. According to police sources a lonely Hapoel fan was surrounded by 150 fans from the Parisian club on a street outside the areana. A policeman hurried tthere and fired tear gas to disperse the crowd. He then fired two live rounds. Two PSG suporters were hit and one of them was killed....