Stage 11 of the Tour de France was coming down a two-up sprint between Uno-X Mobility's Jonas Abrahamsen and Jayco-AlUla's Mauro Schmid. Then a protestor ran out onto the course.
As Abrahamsen found the last of the power in his legs to edge the sprint by a wheel's length, an ASO employee had rushed out to corner and then rugby tackle a man wearing a t-shirt reading 'Israel out of the Tour' on it, back over the barriers from whence he came.
The ASO employee was the man ultimately responsible for the finish line area: Stéphane Boury. He stands the closest of anyone to the finish line of a Tour de France stage, along with the contracted security staff, and reacted the quickest to deal with the protestor.
After Boury had served the protestor a rough tackle back over the barriers, he started hitting him with his radio, according to those on the scene.
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