Lille Fans Stabbed In ‘Ambush’ Before Bologna Champions League Clash: Club

Two Lille followers have been stabbed throughout an assault carried out by dozens of Bologna supporters earlier than the 2 groups’ Champions League fixture, the French Ligue 1 membership stated on Wednesday. In an announcement, Lille stated the 2 followers “received medical treatment” after the assault exterior a bar within the northern Italian metropolis late on Tuesday. “The club unreservedly condemns this cowardly and intolerable attack, which contravenes all the values of football,” stated Lille earlier than Wednesday’s recreation. Italian media, citing native police, stated 80 individuals, most definitely Bologna supporters, assaulted round 30 Lille followers exterior a bar within the metropolis’s college district whereas armed with metallic bars and belts.

Videos revealed on-line present a big group of males, largely wearing black and sporting balaclavas roaming the streets.

Police say in the course of the assault three Lille followers have been harm in whole, all three of whom have been handled after which discharged from Bologna’s Sant’Orsola hospital.

Lille are in rivalry for a spot within the play-offs for the Champions League’s final 16 as they sit seventeenth, whereas Bologna have a single level after 4 matches and are preventing to not be eradicated.

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