Moroccan soccer fans rioted across France Wednesday night as their team lost to France 2:0 in the World Cup. A 14-year old boy was killed in Montpellier when fans attacked a car with a French flag and the driver accelerated in panic to escape the mob.
#Update: Just in – Other video footage from another angle showing you the Moroccan fans trying to steal the French flag of the car and pounding on it, when then speeding and turning away driving over the group of Moroccan fans after feeling threatened in #Montpellier, #Fance. pic.twitter.com/G750JUT2N3
— Sotiri Dimpinoudis (@sotiridi) December 14, 2022
The 14-year-old boy was pronouced dead in the hospital.
Videos documented the Moroccan fans running riot in the beautiful Mediterranean city of Montpellier, which is know for its leftist Mayor, tolerance and large gay community (think French San Francisco).
⚽️🇲🇦 ❌️ 🇫🇷 Situation out of control in #Montpellier. pic.twitter.com/ad0pYdUrdm
— 🔥🗞The Informant (@theinformant_x) December 14, 2022
Riot police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. 25.000 police were deployed in France ahead of the World Cup game, since Moroccan fans have been rioting after every game throughout Europe for the last month. It still wasn’t enough to control the outburst, however.
#Update: Just in – Anarchy is breaking out in the French city of #Montpellier, #Fance. Moroccan fans throwing chairs fireworks, and rocks towards riot police and lighting up fires, who then engages in tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets. pic.twitter.com/aJsu2Nc8s0
— Sotiri Dimpinoudis (@sotiridi) December 14, 2022
https://twitter.com/KehKeLunga0_0/status/1603185086891192321?s=20&t=rf8tS6DxKJ05FzhqFNOa3Q
Moroccan youths attacked people just for being French:
🚨#BREAKING: French being brutally attacked in #Montpellier https://t.co/A9L2hoE0TM
— World Source News 24/7 (@Worldsource24) December 15, 2022
In Paris, riot police clashed with Moroccan rioters around the Arc de Triomphe, sign of France’s national pride:
#Breaking: Update – First heavy clashes with french riot police engaging with Moroccan fans on the arc de triomphe at the #ChampsElysees, #Paris, #France, at the fans were throwing rocks and other kinds of projectiles towards French celebrating French people and their vehicles. pic.twitter.com/tUxof0uzSt
— Sotiri Dimpinoudis (@sotiridi) December 14, 2022
By the end of the night, the famed Champs Elyseees were full of riot police vehicles:
Numerous Riot Controlling Vans in Paris to control riots between #French National & #Moroccan refugees in France.
France gave them shelter and they wanted to riot in #France in the name of football.
What a bunch of thankless shameless people‼️#FIFAWorldCup #MoroccoVsFrance pic.twitter.com/CdnXMVb7rp
— Research Wing (@ResearchWing) December 15, 2022
Riots also broke out in Lyon, France’s second-largest city, as well as Grenoble and Nice:
Rioting breaks out in Lyon, France as Morocco was defeated by France in the #FIFAWorldCup. pic.twitter.com/PktIBCTAeI
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) December 14, 2022
Riots were also reported from Brussels, Belgium and Amsterdam & Rotterdam in the Netherlands:
https://twitter.com/LoveWorld_Peopl/status/1603161428944470017?s=20&t=rf8tS6DxKJ05FzhqFNOa3Q
Moroccans attacked a second-floor apartment for flying a French flag in Brussels:
https://twitter.com/based_belgium/status/1603297108664242176?s=20&t=rf8tS6DxKJ05FzhqFNOa3Q
