Clashes erupt in the stands of the Stade de France during France-Israel nations league football match.
Several hundred pro-Palestine demonstrators gathered on the Place du Front Populaire, in Paris, in the run-up to the match at the Stade de France.
France said it had been preparing to host Israel's national football team in a match deemed "high risk" by the authorities after last week’s violence in Amsterdam.
France has announced exceptional measures to ensure security at the upcoming match, with the mobilisation of a total of 4,000 police officers and gendarmes.
Only 16,611 fans were in attendance at the 80,000 capacity stadium, mostly due to security concerns and a call for boycott, in what was the lowest turnout ever for a French national team match at the Stade de France in Paris.
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