The president of the French team Nice Jean-Pierre Rivere has accused the Marseille players of inciting the ugly incident on Sunday where the fans said the safety cordon and entered the field to physically attack the Marseille players which then led to the interruption of match.

Rivere said that the Marseille players responded with excessive force after Dimitri Payet was hit by a bottle near the throwing flag from the corner, KosovaPress reports.

The match was canceled when the Marseille players refused to leave the locker room at the “Allianz Riviera” due to concerns for their safety.

“What made things worse was the reaction of two Marseille players (Alvaro Gonzalez and Matteo Guendouzi) who attacked the fans,” Rivere told RMC Sport.

“It’s disappointing that it ended that way. Things are pretty clear. Marseille’s security should not have come down to the pitch and hit our players. “I really do not understand why Marseille agreed to continue the game.”

Matteo Guendouzi and Luan Peres were among the players with visible marks on the body left by Nice fans.

Payet, meanwhile, was photographed with a mark on his back, apparently from being hit by the bottle.

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April 21, 2021 – 23:32

Italian police have arrested a 28-year-old man of Albanian origin as an accomplice in the Nice massacre of July 14, 2016. It is about the young Endri Elezi, who was arrested in Sparanise, in the province of Caserta in Italy.

According to Italian media, the 28-year-old Albanian was wanted following an arrest warrant issued by French authorities, as he was responsible for supplying weapons to the perpetrator of the massacre, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel.

The young man was identified by the agents of the Naples Digo and Caserta, coordinated by the Naples prosecutor’s office, thanks to information gathered by the Anti-Terrorism.

In the massacre of July 14, 2016 in Nice, France, over 80 people lost their lives while hundreds of others were injured as a truck fired on the crowd gathered to celebrate the national day of July 14./A2