{"id":117091,"date":"2024-11-17T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=117091"},"modified":"2024-11-17T10:10:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T08:10:51","slug":"17-00-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=117091","title":{"rendered":"Controversial Israel-France Soccer Match in Paris Attracts Extremely Low Turnout of Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Controversial Israel-France Soccer Match in Paris Attracts Extremely Low Turnout of Fans<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Fans display a Palestinian flag and an Israel flag during the France v Israel soccer match at Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France on Nov. 14, 2024. Photo: REUTERS\/Gonzalo Fuentes<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A tense match that took place in Paris on Thursday between Israel and France\u2019s national soccer teams drew weak attendance against the backdrop of heightened security surrounding the stadium, recent violent attacks against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam, and an anti-Israel protest in Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stade de France was barely a fifth full and only 16,611 fans were in the stands, which is nowhere near the stadium\u2019s 80,000-person capacity, according to Reuters. In the stands were some 100 Israel soccer fans, who watched their home country and France end the UEFA Nations League match with a 0-0 draw in the French team\u2019s first game at the Stade de France in 17 month. The Israeli soccer fans ignored\u00a0a warning from the Israeli government<\/a>\u00a0against attending international sporting events, specifically Thursday\u2019s game.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe had to play this game in a context that we would like not to have. It\u2019s obviously weird to play in front of such a [small] crowd,\u201d France manager Didier Deschamps said after the match, as reported by ESPN.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s match took place despite\u00a0pressure<\/a>\u00a0from pro-Palestinian activists last week to cancel the game and following a pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel rally that took place in Paris on Thursday night near the soccer stadium. Several hundred people at the protest condemned France for hosting the soccer game and criticized French leaders, such as President Emmanuel Macron for attending the match, according to\u00a0EuroNews.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s match was also attended by former Presidents of France Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy, former president of the regional council of Hauts-de-France Xavier Bertrand and former Minister Manuel Valls. \u201cWe will not give in to antisemitism, anywhere. And violence, including in the French Republic, will never prevail, nor will intimidation,\u201d Macron told BFM TV channel before the game.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hoping to prevent a repeat of the\u00a0violent antisemitic attacks<\/a>\u00a0that took place in Amsterdam last week targeting Israeli soccer fans who attended a Europa League game involving Maccabi Tel Aviv, 4,000 French security personnel were deployed inside and outside Stade de France and on public transport on Thursday. Despite the increased security, there was a\u00a0brief scuffle<\/a>\u00a0between a small number of fans shortly after kickoff. The clashes, in which some punches were thrown, involved some fans who had oversized Israeli flags draped over their backs and though it was not clear what caused the altercation, security intervened and quickly restored calm in the stands, according to ESPN. Some anti-Israel fans in the stands also booed and whistled when Israel\u2019s national anthem \u201cHatikvah\u201d played before the start of the game.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Controversial Israel-France Soccer Match in Paris Attracts Extremely Low Turnout of Fans Shiryn Ghermezian Fans display a Palestinian flag and an Israel flag during the France v Israel soccer match at Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France on Nov. 14, 2024. Photo: REUTERS\/Gonzalo Fuentes A tense match that took place in Paris on Thursday between Israel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117091"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117104,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117091\/revisions\/117104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}