Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 matches in France this weekend will be preceded by a minute of silence in tribute to the victims of the attacks in Europe and the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the Professional Football League (LFP) announced on Wednesday. ).
Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 matches in France this weekend will be preceded by a minute of silence in tribute to the victims of the attacks in Europe and the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the Professional Football League (LFP) announced on Wednesday. ).
A tribute to the victims of recent attacks
“Before the kick-off” of the matches of the 9th day of L1 (from Friday to Sunday) and the 11th day of L2 (from Saturday to Monday), “a minute of meditation will be observed in tribute to Dominique Bernard, professor of French stabbed to death Friday October 13 at the Gambetta-Carnot high school, in Arras, to the two Swedish supporters who came to attend the qualifying match for Euro-2024 between Belgium and Sweden and murdered by a terrorist in Brussels, Tuesday October 16 , as well as in tribute to the multiple victims of the dramatic events that recently occurred in Israel” and in the Palestinian territories, writes the League in a press release.
An explosion which caused hundreds of victims on Tuesday evening inside a hospital in Gaza, for which Israel and Palestinians blame each other, was added to the thousands of deaths in this war triggered by an unprecedented attack by Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7. A minute of silence was also observed on Tuesday before all qualifying matches for Euro-2024 to pay tribute to the memory of the victims of the Brussels attack, at the request of UEFA.