Once the match between French and Moroccan teamsHowever, French riot police lined up when the first fans went to the Champs-Elysées in Paris to express their joy at the 2-0 victory over the second, and there they found that the Moroccan fans had preceded them on the same road to express their joy despite the defeat, but making the history of their team as the first Arab country. Africa reaches the semi-finals.
The situation rapidly deteriorated, “and violent clashes ensued between the two sides,” according to a series of hasty tweets on Twitter, written by Greek journalist Sotiri Dimpinoudis, who was born in the Belgian capital, Brussels, where he resides, and has strengthened some of them with video clips late Tuesday evening, including the one shown below.
The video shows Moroccan and French fans throwing rocks and chairs at each other and setting fire to each other, Al-Arabiya.net learned from a tweet written by “Dimpenodis,” which said the police had intervened to try to hold back the two sides by firing tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets.
The same in Brussels
Dembenodis tweeted that more than 2,500 policemen and agents flocked to the famous boulevard after the Moroccan national team lost the game, “out of fear of riots and clashes with fans of the French national team”, and a video of police trucks heading towards the boulevard was broadcast, while the French newspaper Midi Libre also broadcast, on its website, a video of what appeared to be bullets and flaming rockets used by the two sides in a square in a distant city in the south of France, 748 km from Paris, bordering Montpellier on the Mediterranean coast of Marseille.
The same thing also happened in Brussels, where small fires broke out in a street in the city center, according to a video released on communication sites, in which a man appeared hastily raising his country’s flag from the window, then turned over the trucks police appeared as they were heading towards an area that appeared to have been the scene of clashes between both sides, ended well.
