Football match canceled between Algeria, France because of acts of riots
Algeria-France, Politics, 10/8/2001

The first international football game between France and Algeria took place on Saturday evening was canceled in Paris after Algerian supporters got into the playground of the stadium when the match was taking place.

The " Amicable " match was stopped just 12 minutes before its end when tens of Algerian supporters went into the playground and forced the Portuguese referee Paolo Manuel Costa to send the players to their " cloth changing room" after France " the World football Champion" shot Algeria 4 / 1.

Ten minutes later, the director general of the French team Henry Emil said the Game was abrogated after the riot fighting police entered the playground platform.

The angry Algerian- team supported chanted: Algeria.. Algeria " and then started throwing plastic bottles at the policemen.

The chairman of the French football Game Claude Simon and the minister of the French Sport Mary George Buffet called on the supporters to avoid clashes upon evacuating the stadium. No news were reported on clashes to have had erupted around the stadium.

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