The violence took place in a bar near the Dijon stadium. There were no injuries or arrests.
Violence took place in a bar on Monday in Dijon before the Dijon-Auxerre match counting for the 16th day of Ligue 2, according to a police source confirming press information.
These incidents, which occurred in an establishment near the city stadium before the match scheduled for 8:45 p.m., did not cause any injuries and did not give rise to any arrests, said this source.
Trashed bar
According to the regional daily The Public Good, around 5:00 p.m., while around thirty Dijon supporters were in the bar, several dozen people, described as Auxerre supporters, burst in and ransacked the place.
“It was quick, not even three minutes. They burned a bench with a smoke, they insulted us … All that for a football match, it’s nonsense,” told the newspaper the bar owner.
Before this Burgundian derby, the first in an official match since 2016, the prefecture of Côte-d’Or had issued a decree prohibiting “any person availing himself of the quality of supporter of AJ Auxerre, or behaving as such, from ‘access to downtown Dijon’, the official movement of Auxerre supporters being supervised by the police.
These incidents occur the day after the bottle thrown to which Olympique de Marseille player Dimitri Payet suffered from a supporter during the Ligue 1 match between OM and Lyon, resulting in the interruption of the match. .
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