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COTE D'IVOIRE / STAMPEDE
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STORY: COTE D'IVOIRE / STAMPEDE
TRT: 2.44
SOURCE: ONUCI
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH/ NATS
DATELINE: 29 MARCH 2009, ABIDJAN, COTE D'IVOIRE
1. Pan right, stadium field during match Cote d’Ivoire vs. Malawi
2. Wide shot, scoreboard reading “Welcome from the Ivorian People” switching to “Football, a Peace Factor”
3. Wide shot, fans chanting
4. Med shot, fans chanting
5. Wide shot, fans chanting
6. Various shots, actions of the game, including penalty score by Didier Drogba, Ivorian player
7. Med shot, Ivorian players dancing after they scored the second goal
8. Zoom out, spectators chanting to wide shot of crowded stadium
9. Wide shot, spectator waving fireworks in the stadium
10. Zoom out, fire service vehicle passing in front of crowd of spectators
11. Med shot, ambulance inside the stadium
12. Various shots, wounded people being carried by fire service personnel into a vehicle
13. Wide shot, wounded people being carried into fire service vehicle
14. Wide shot, spectators sitting on the wall of the stadium
15. Wide shot, fire service truck leaving the stadium
16. Med shot, fire service truck leaving the stadium
17. Wide shot, police watching the crowd in the stadium
18. Wide shot, scoreboard reading “Cote d’Ivoire 5 – Malawi 0”
19. Med shot, Ivorian players walking to the dressing room
20. Med shot, Didier Drogba wearing a black band and clapping his hands towards the crowd while going to the dressing room
21. Med shot, wounded fan watching officials leaving the stadium in their cars
22. SOUNDBITE (French) Poti Florent, Ivorian fan:
“When they arrived, some people couldn’t enter the stadium, so they were struggling. Now we are told that there have been deaths.”
23. Wide shot, street with player’s bus leaving and blue sirens flashing in the back
24. SOUNDBITE (French) Poti Florent, Ivorian fan:
“When I came in at 3 pm, I was a victim of the incident. But thank god, I managed to escape. We fell down, and then I stood up and entered the stadium.”
25. Med shot, cars and walking fans leaving the area of the stadium
A stampede occurred on Sunday (29 March) at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny stadium, during a football match between the Ivorian team and Malawi, in which about twenty Ivorian supporters died and more than 130 were injured.
The stampede happened when a mass of supporters pushed a gate and forced it open before entering to the stadium.
The football match was part of elimination stages for the 2010 World Cup to be hosted in South Africa and the African Cup which will take place in Angola later this year.
This is the worst tragedy related to sports in Cote d’Ivoire in many years. An Ivorian fan who managed to escape from the stampede related the incidents.
SOUNDBITE (French) Poti Florent, Ivorian fan:
“When they arrived, some people couldn’t enter the stadium, so they were struggling. Now we are told that there have been deaths.”
SOUNDBITE (French) Poti Florent, Ivorian fan:
“When I came in at 3 pm, I was a victim of the incident. But thank god, I managed to escape. We fell down, and then I stood up and entered the stadium.”
Cote d’Ivoire is overcoming a crisis since a rebellion divided the country in September 2002.








