A man died this weekend near a Ligue 1 stadium. We would like to say that we did not expect this tragedy. That we could not imagine that a football evening between friends could one day lead to such an outburst of hatred in 2023, in France. “It was a swarm of bees, they came running military-style, hooded. We were surrounded. I’ve seen fights before. There, it was something else,” recalled this Sunday, December 3 in our columns a VTC driver who was the victim of this ambush the previous evening at the entrance to Beaujoire, shortly before Nantes-Nice.