44 police injured in French football clashes

11 August,2014 08:29 AM IST |   |  AFP

Forty-four French riot and para-military police officers were injured when clashes broke out after a football match between Marseille and Bastia, the interior ministry said yesterday


Paris: Forty-four French riot and para-military police officers were injured when clashes broke out after a football match between Marseille and Bastia, the interior ministry said yesterday.

In a statement the ministry said 10 members of the CRS riot police and 34 gendarmes were "injured or bruised"" when violence broke out at the stadium on the island of Corsica "before and after" the Ligue 1 match, which ended in a draw on Saturday night.

A source close to the case said scores of supporters of the Bastia team attacked police officers outside the stadium, pelting them with stones and explosive devices.

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