Despite all health precautions, between three hundred and four hundred football fans attended a "wild" football match in Strasbourg, Sunday, May 24 in the afternoon, Monday revealed Latest News from Alsace.
"A team of Neuhof soccer players met a team from Hautepierre [two sensitive districts of Strasbourg] on land in another neighborhood ", the city’s sports assistant Serge Oehler told Agence France-Presse. "We do not know if these are official or neighborhood teams" and the match was announced on social media on Friday, he added.
But according to the elected official, no doubt, "Someone must have the keys" to open the Paco-Matéo stadium where the prohibited meeting took place. The municipal police intervened to observe the gathering and "Everyone dispersed at the end of the afternoon", according to a city official.
"A viral mini-bomb"
Indignation on the side of the nursing staff. "It is frankly unreasonable. The virus is still present and this kind of meeting can constitute a viral mini-bomb. Let us remain cautious and mobilized ”, wrote on Professor Gilbert Deray on Twitter, head of the nephrology department at Pitié-Salpêtrière, in Paris.
Strasbourg sports assistant promises "Very severe sanctions" if "Football educators or licensees" are identified on the images of video surveillance cameras installed in the neighborhood. Football clubs have been called to order in recent days for organizing training, and all stadium locks will be changed, he said.
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