Boy run over and killed after France World Cup win

A 14-year-old lad has been tally implicit and killed successful the confederate French metropolis of Montpellier soon aft France's World Cup semi-final triumph implicit Morocco.

Authorities said helium was struck by a car aft the lucifer and past died successful hospital.

Images connected societal media showed a car draped successful a French tricolour surrounded by radical who past grabbed the flag.

The operator past appeared to panic, accelerating into 2 teenagers.

As helium turned his car astir and sped off, the 14-year-old was deed and went into cardiac arrest.

"Immense sadness that a sporting lawsuit should extremity successful full tragedy," said section MP Nathalie Oziol, who expressed her sympathy with the boy's family.

The section prefect successful the confederate Hérault country said the car was aboriginal recovered abandoned not acold from the country of the accident, and constabulary person begun searching for the driver.

The incidental happened successful Montpellier's north-western territory of La Paillade, astir fractional an hr aft the last whistle successful Qatar, wherever France bushed Morocco 2-0.

Tensions betwixt France and Morocco supporters concisely spilled implicit successful the centre of the metropolis arsenic flares were lit and constabulary responded with teardrop gas. France has a ample Moroccan assemblage of immoderate 1.5 cardinal people.

Celebrations successful cities crossed France were mostly peaceful, though constabulary utilized teardrop state to halt occupation involving far-right youths successful the centre of Lyon.

Ten 1000 constabulary were deployed crossed the state and a reported 167 arrests were reported nationally.