Stabbing ahead of Champions League match in Milan
More Soccer Violence
Stabbings ahead of a Champions League match in Milan between the French team’s and AC Milan’s supporters, found a police officer and a Paris Saint-Germain supporter both critically injured and hospitalized. Italian media reports that on the eve of Tuesday’s Champions League match between the two teams, a group of about fifty Milan supporters attacked PSG supporters in the bustling Navigli neighborhood of the city while donning masks, helmets, and flares.
Stabbings involve Police and Supporters of the Champions League match in Milan
After receiving two knife wounds to the leg, a PSG supporter was taken to the hospital. Conflicts also arose between police and PSG supporters. After stabbing an officer, the alleged offender was taken into custody.
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“Every kind of violence is condemned by AC Milan; football is about passion, not hate. “Sport should bring people together rather than cause division,” the Italian club stated in a post on X, a social media site that was formerly known as Twitter. The post was posted in French, English, and Italian.
AC Milan on Twitter: “AC Milan condemns every form of violence: football for us is passion, not hate. Sport is supposed to unite, not divide.Il Milan condanna ogni forma di violenza: per noi il calcio Γ¨ passione, non odio. Lo sport Γ¨ fatto per unire, non dividere. L’AC Milan condamne toute forme… pic.twitter.com/xZ0t9JiD1W / Twitter”
AC Milan condemns every form of violence: football for us is passion, not hate. Sport is supposed to unite, not divide.Il Milan condanna ogni forma di violenza: per noi il calcio Γ¨ passione, non odio. Lo sport Γ¨ fatto per unire, non dividere. L’AC Milan condamne toute forme… pic.twitter.com/xZ0t9JiD1W
Before Milan’s other Champions League home game against the Premier League team in September, a Newcastle supporter was stabbed in the same part of town.
Milan, which advanced to the semifinals the previous year, is currently bottom of Group F and has not scored a goal or won any of the competition’s games.