AS Saint-Etienne : Virus – Controversy: Refusing all prevention instructions, thousands of people invade the field in Saint-Etienne, kissing and hugging | ASSE News

How is such a scene possible in stage 2 of coronavirus prevention? Yesterday evening, overjoyed, in the middle of a difficult season which saw their club struggling to maintain Ligue 1, thousands of Saint-Etienne supporters massively invaded the pitch on Thursday, with the final whistle sealing the qualification of the Greens for the final of the Coupe de France, at the expense of Stade Rennais (2-1). A crowd that has kissed, hugged …

While the President of the Republic announced yesterday that we were inevitably heading towards an epidemic, we hardly dare imagine how many people were infected last night during this sequence if only one person among these thousands of people were contaminated.

The clear question that arises today is how the authorities were able to allow this invasion to take place without intervening and without the slightest precaution!

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