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Seven individuals had been arrested as 1000’s of followers gathered regardless of a coronavirus curfew to have fun Lille’s Ligue 1 title, the prefecture of the Nord area mentioned on Monday.
The followers gathered within the northern French metropolis after Lille received at Angers to clinch the title of their final sport of the season on Sunday evening.
“The police needed to make seven arrests, together with one for ‘tried murder in opposition to the police utilizing a car’,” the prefecture mentioned.
Three individuals had been arrested for throwing projectiles, two for burning garbage bins and one for possession of fireworks, it added.
Twenty individuals had been handled by emergency companies, together with three who wanted to be taken to hospital, the assertion mentioned.
The police had arrange a roadblock to regulate entry to the Grand-Place, the historic centre of town, however supporters gathered anyway and had been allowed to make their means into the sq. by way of aspect streets.
They waved flags and scarves of their staff’s colors, in a pink halo of smoke, to the sound of exploding firecrackers whereas singing “We’re the champions” and “Free of need” and dancing.
The temper was typically festive and good-natured ambiance.
On Saturday, the regional prefect Michel Lalande had known as on the individuals of Lille to “get pleasure from this second of sport in full security, in a well being context that’s enhancing however stays fragile”.
He requested “everybody to proceed to respect all of the well being measures in drive and to not set off fireworks on the general public freeway”.
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