Police clash with French fans, while Palestine flag banned at Real Madrid

Fans were prevented from taking Palastine flags into Real Madrid’s stadium connected heated nighttime with Marseille fans successful Spain.

Spanish constabulary clashed with Marseille fans up of the Champions League lucifer betwixt the French nine and Real Madrid.

The confrontation began successful the Spanish superior connected Tuesday, arsenic the fans waited to get into the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium earlier the game.

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Police successful riot cogwheel and horse-riding officers utilized batons to disperse the French supporters arsenic they seemingly tried to determination retired of the spot allocated for them portion waiting extracurricular the Bernabeu gates.

A fewer 1000 French fans were expected for the match, and a dense constabulary beingness was successful attendance for the game.

The concern was controlled quickly, and the fans entered the stadium successful clip for the match.

The clashes betwixt the constabulary successful Spain and supporters of Olympique de Marseille took spot connected the streets of Madrid adjacent to Real’s stadium [Rodrigo Jimenez/EPA]

Bernabeu information unit did not let fans to participate the stadium with Palestinian flags, enforcing a argumentation that was successful spot adjacent earlier pro-Palestinian protests made headlines for disrupting the Spanish Vuelta cycling contention this weekend.

The flags were confiscated from fans who tried to participate with them.

The anti-Israeli authorities protests disrupted respective stages of the three-week-long Vuelta.

Protesters, who demanded that squad Israel Premier Tech beryllium expelled from the Grand Tour event, threw barriers onto the roadworthy and clashed with constabulary connected Sunday to support the last signifier from being completed arsenic primitively planned.

A subordinate of the Spanish constabulary connected a equine extracurricular the stadium wherever a dense information beingness was successful cognition [Mateo Villalba Sanchez/Getty Images]