Qualified for the eighth round of the Coupe de France, the Mayotte club of Combani will be deprived of several players, without papers and prohibited from traveling to mainland France despite the intervention of the RN deputy of Mayotte, Anchya Bamana, to help them in their approach.
Live my life as an overseas club in the Coupe de France. Qualified for the eighth round of the competition, the Combani Black Devils team traveled to Corsica to challenge Corte this Wednesday in an advanced match. If the weather conditions – Corsica is placed on orange alert – may have cast doubt on the holding of the meeting, it has already suffered a one-day postponement after accusations of cheating filed by Crépy-en-Valois, eliminated on Saturday at seventh round by Combani. The Oise club accused its rival of having falsified medical certificates to field three players.
A situation born from the absence of several members of the Mahorais workforce, stranded in Mayotte due to failure to obtain authorization to travel to mainland France. And, as explained by the newspaper Libération and the website of the Mayotte La Première channel, it is not for lack of having received the support of the local RN deputy, Anchya Bamana.
The MP satisfied with the prefect’s refusal
The elected official thus wrote on Monday to the prefect of Mayotte to obtain that the seven players in an irregular situation could go to Corsica to play the Coupe de France match. Questioned by the daily, the National Rally MP assured that she had requested this pass “in good faith” before welcoming the prefect’s refusal, having read all the ins and outs of the file.
Spokesperson for Marine Le Pen in Mayotte, Daniel Zaïdani made a very clear statement on his social networks on Wednesday: “Let us summarize the affair of the 7 illegal immigrants from the Black Devils of Combani. Too delinquent to obtain a permit pass for Paris! But good profile to stay in Mayotte!
Two players “unfavorably known” by the police and the gendarmerie
Unless there is a further postponement linked to the weather conditions in Corsica, the Black Devils of Combani will therefore challenge Corte’s team without their seven players stranded in Mayotte. The prefect of the overseas island justified his refusal to grant safe conduct to footballers by recalling that passes for the mainland can only be issued to foreigners in a legal situation and with a valid residence permit.
“Four of these players filed requests as sick foreigners. These files were also closed recently,” said François-Xavier Bieuville quoted by Mayotte La Première. Two other files had been submitted as a parent of a French child, but with “very incomplete requests which could not be processed” according to the State representative who did not fail to conclude by emphasizing that two of the seven footballers stranded in Mayotte were “unfavorably known” to the police and gendarmerie.
