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We feared for our lives, says Albania captain

Albania captain Lorik Cana says he heard cries of "Kill, kill the Albanians" during his nation's abandoned Euro 2016 qualifier with Serbia.

Cana and his team-mates were forced to defend themselves before fleeing to the safety of the dressing room in Belgrade on Tuesday after Serbian fans invaded the pitch and attacked visiting players.

He told L'Equipe: "There were racist and hateful chants," he said. "There were three of them. The first was: 'Kosovo is part of Serbia.' The second: 'Kill, kill the Albanians.' And the third: 'You are monkeys!' But we ignored that."

Drone found, say police

The drone that was flown in over the stadium © AP

• Serbian police say they have found the drone that flew an Albanian nationalist banner over a stadium in Belgrade, igniting a brawl on the pitch and fueling simmering political tensions between Balkan rivals Serbia and Albania.
• The small drone with four rotors -- last seen being carried off by a Serb fan during the stadium brawl that saw the Euro 2016 qualifier on Tuesday night abandoned -- will be checked to see where it was manufactured and purchased and who could have flown it, police chief Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Thursday.
• He accused Albanians of being "exclusively'' to blame for the clashes.

The incident was sparked when a drone flying the Albanian flag and showing a map of Kosovo - which declared its independence from Serbia in 2008, but is not recognised by its neighbour - flew over the pitch.

Cana continued: "The people attacked us; a guy even came with a chair and hit one of our players on the head. When I saw that, I had to defend him. What was terrible was that even the stewards started hitting us. I received blows from members of the stadium security.

"If you saw some of the bodies ... They really caught it. What would have happened if instead of a chair, it had been a knife? Our lives were in danger.

"We took the decision to get back to the dressing room as quickly as possible, but we had to get to the players' tunnel, and we saw their supporters get through the security barriers and come towards us. We were hit with stones, batteries ... It was really dangerous and I just tried to gather everyone together."

Cana added that he was kicked in the stomach as the team, who were left with "six or seven" members of their delegation injured according to the former PSG and Marseille midfielder himself, eventually got back to the dressing room where they waited for three-and-a-half hours before finally heading for home.

UEFA have already opened an enquiry into the disturbances and have charged both Football Associations for their misconduct.

Reflecting on the incidents, the president of European football's governing body, Michel Platini, told TF1 it may have been worse.

"It's not only shameful, just imagine a drone comes onto the pitch like that and there's a bomb rather than a flag?" he said.

"What would we do? It's sad, but we have to be very careful because it's becoming dangerous, especially in those countries over there where there is an enormous amount of political tension."

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