The Loire Brigade at the heart of a disagreement between the Ministers of the Interior and Sports. If Bruno Retailleau announced on Monday that he was studying the dissolution of the FC Nantes ultra group, several members of which attempted to invade the Beaujoire lawn causing the interruption of the meeting between the Canaries and Le Havre on Sunday ( 0-2), Gil Avérous is not on the same line as his counterpart at Place Beauvau. And made it known Tuesday morning.
“Beyond this long procedure and the outcome which must be legally secure, firm individual sanctions rather than collective sanctions are to be favored: we must concentrate more in the short term on the 70 to 80 individuals who attempted to “invade the pitch and pronounce exemplary bans as quickly as possible in order to avoid further excesses for the next matches,” explains his office in a press release sent to the media.
“As a reminder, the Loire Brigade is not an association but a de facto groupthe dissolution would necessarily take place over a long time and the troublemakers could always go to the stadium,” continues the entourage of the Minister of Sports. The latter began a “stadium tour” in Troyes on Friday to meet French supporters.
This is not the first time that Bruno Retailleau and Gil Avérous have publicly displayed differences around football. At the end of October, the second contradicted the first on homophobic chants in the stadiums. If the Minister of Sports had spoken in favor of stopping matches in this type of situation, the Minister of the Interior had considered that this was not “the right solution”.
