Posted on 11/23/2006 10:05:14 PM PST by ScaniaBoy
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. The policeman was forced to flee from the rest of the suporters and took refuge in a hamburger resturant. The police put in reinforcements to quench the unrest, and an internal investigation regarding the shooting was immediately initiated.
(Translated from Swedish)
A very small notice far down on the SvD homepage. Now how would this have looked if the match had taken place in Tel Aviv and the Israeli police had killed a soccer fan? Any guesses?
A lonely Jew against 150 PSG fans. Lots of rasism connected to fans of the large soccer clubs in France, Italy and the Netherlands. It doesn't say but my guess is that we are dealing with the usual "youths".
Oh, yes, Hapoel won, PSG lost - he, he, he, he!
PING!
Succer has hooligans because it's so frigging boring, the fans have way too much energy they are not expending cheering for the team.
Damn metric football.
What really made it bad is that after the cop made the shot, he said, "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLL!"
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How is this news ROFL
If about Eagles or Raider fan I am intersted
Euro Succer Fan makes Raider Fan look downright sedate. Couldn't have happened to a better person...
Have the flics had enough?
There will be a lot of fallout from this. The whorehouse European media will instantly demonize the cop for excessive force. The rest of us might wonder at the level of provocation that must have existed, given the ultra PC background of recent French police work.
What is "Soccer"?
What worst in US football fans Eagles fan or Raider fan
I am raider fan I know Eagle fan would tear up Raider fan
do you have a boycott against using punctuation? or is a it some kind of haiku hybrid? or?
On a confrontation between Raider Fan and Iggle Fan...it would be hard to choose sides...
I work at Eagles games. Last season, "Spike", one of the many costumed Raiders fans, was invited to the Linc in Philly by a friend of mine, the "Birdman". (There apparently is a sub-culture of NFL fans who like to dress up as unofficial mascots, and they have a friendly fraternity). Birdman invited me to meet Mr. Spike, and when I did, the man was visibly shaking from fright. "You guys are way too over the top" he said.....nothing physical happened, just lots and lots of verbal abuse. No police or ambulances were needed.
While Eagles fans have had some publicized bad incidents in the past, I'd venture to say that it's much safer to go to an Eagles game dressed in another team's jersey than any European soccer match...not even close.
What I find revolting is that these Soccer Hooligans can not work up even half as much emotional attachment to their homeland and the defense there of as they do about a moronic sport team.
If these Frenchmen cared half as much about their country as they do about their precious football teams we would have a strong French ally on the ground in Iraq.
My God, a French firearm that's actually been fired TWICE in COMBAT?
The collectors' value on that pistol just shot up about 50,000 dollars.
I'm sure he'll get France's highest award for valor for actually firing twice before actually retreating.
Shooting at unarmed soccer fans hardly qualifies as combat no matter how rowdy they are. Granted there were 150 of them but he got away.
Still, I can't be too hard on him. It would take 30 LA police officers firing 180 rounds to score two hits.
I thought they were up to about 50 a day, just in Paris, under "normal" circumstances. How many do you have to get to for it to be a "massacre"?
That many burned cars in any major city win the US would be beyond belief.
How do the French insurance companies put up with this? Other than just removing coverage for burning? In the US, State Farm and Alstate would be putting enormous pressure on the government over this kind of stuff.
IOW, a fair fight.
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