OGC Nice-Cologne: The seriously injured supporter on the German side is “a Parisian supporter” – 20 Minutes

His vital prognosis “is engaged”. A “Parisian supporter” present in the German ranks was seriously injured before the meeting between OGC Nice and FC Cologne, during the first day of the Europa League Conference, this Thursday. He fell 5 meters from the stands of the Allianz Arena and suffered “a head and chest trauma and his vital prognosis is engaged”, indicated to AFP Benoît Huber, the director of cabinet of the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes. The man was “very alcoholic”. “He is a Frenchman, a Parisian supporter who was in the German ranks”, announced Benoït Hubert, reached by telephone, recalling that the supporters of the Auteuil stand at the Parc des Princes in Paris “have links with the Cologne ultras”. A banner of PSG’s “Supras Auteuil” was thus taken out in the tribune allocated to the Germans, noted an AFP journalist. Smoke bombs, bottles and punches In the afternoon, German supporters left empty bottles and cans on Place Masséna, in downtown Nice, and had tagged the official store of the Nice club and vandalized the Aiglons logo. Before the match, a hundred German and Nice supporters threw smoke bombs and bottles at each other and exchanged punches in front of the stadium. The intervention of the CRS was necessary to separate the two camps and a German was taken care of by the firefighters. Tensions continued inside the Allianz Riviera where Cologne supporters wanted to join the stands of Nice to continue fighting, this is where the Parisian supporter fell. A total of 18 people were injured, including a supporter slightly hit by a knife, and three hospitalized, according to a count from the prefecture around 8 p.m.