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Lille-Aston Villa: a brawl between supporters before the quarter-final second leg of the Europa Conference League
English fans were allegedly attacked this Wednesday evening in Lille, on the eve of the quarter-final return between LOSC and the Premier League team.
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Aston Villa supporters attacked in #Lille
While waiting for the tension on the pitch, where Paulo Fonseca's LOSC will try to overthrow Aston Villa to reach the semi-finals of the Europa Conference League, this Thursday evening, there were some in the streets of Lille on the eve of the match . Le Parisien reports that English supporters were allegedly attacked near bars in the Old Lille district. According to the newspaper, five hooded attackers attacked them while they were trying to help a drunk person.
Two of them were reportedly arrested by the police. They wore protective gloves, a sign that this attack could have been premeditated, although none of them were injured. The supporters of the attacked Villans announced that they would not file a complaint. The authorities were expecting possible clashes between supporters of the two camps, hoping that football would take over everything else this Thursday.