Moment violence breaks out during France's football match against Israel as fans seen brawling and others flee their seats after more than 6,000 police were deployed to 'high risk' game

We need to show a sort of 'anti-Amsterdam' this evening,

said Arfi, the president of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF).

What we learned is that we need to be present in the public space including far away from the stadium,

he said

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We won’t stop protesting,

said one demonstrator, Omar, 30, who declined to provide his last name

There's a context, tensions that make that match a high-risk event for us,

Nunez told French news broadcaster BFM TV

Laurent Nuñezparis police chief

It is a high-risk match [because of] an extremely tense geopolitical context,

Nuñez said

We do not want our head of state honoring a country that commits genocide,

said LFI deputy David Guiraud

France does not give way to those who sow hatred,

he said

Imagine if an association were hosting a gala for Hezbollah or Hamas. There’s no way police would allow that,

said Melkir Saib, a 30-year-old protester

We will not allow any attempt to disturb public order,

he added

It is out of the question that we take the risk of seeing a repeat of the dramatic events, of the manhunt, that we saw in Amsterdam,

Retailleau said,

It's a sad date for us given what happened in 2015,

Deschamps said

We’ve tried to prepare for this match as normally as possible. But obviously none of us within the team can be insensitive to such a heavy context,

France coach Didier Deschamps said Wednesday

These are situations the players are not accustomed to,

Deschamps said

Emmanuel Macronpresident

We will not give in to antisemitism, anywhere. And violence, including in the French Republic, will never prevail, nor will intimidation,

Macron told BFM TV channel

Some people are calling for the France-Israel match to be relocated. I won't accept it: France won't back down because that would be tantamount to abdicating in the face of threats of violence and anti-Semitism.”

After last week’s violence in Amsterdam

We have to adapt. I separate the context from football. I don't want to use the news as an alibi. Off the pitch, it's very difficult to hear so much bad news coming out of Israel. It affects us,

Shimon told a press conference on Wednesday

Holding this gala in the French capital constitutes an insult to international law and contempt for the United Nations and for the orders issued by the highest international court."

An open letter by seven civil rights groups to the French media reads

It's an exceptional measure, three to four times greater than what we usually mobilize,

Paris police chief Laurent Nunez told RTL radio on Wednesday

But I wont hide it, many of these young people were scared to go as they had in their heads these appalling images from Amsterdam,

he said

Russia has been banned because there was the occupation of Ukraine, it was illegal, there were war crimes, but Israel is never sanctioned for what it does,

he said