Nantes supporters banned from traveling for PSG-Nantes on Saturday

Excesses took place last Sunday during the Nantes-Le Havre match, lost by FC Nantes.

Nantes supporters are prohibited from traveling, Saturday November 30 to Paris, for the match between PSG and FC Nantes as part of the 13th day of Ligue 1 football at the Parc des Princes at 9 p.m., the Nantes club announced Friday on its website. FC Nantes indicates that the “the Ministry of the Interior and the Hauts-de-Seine prefecture have issued orders to prohibit the travel of Nantes supporters to Paris.”

The club expected this decision at the start of the week, it had warned its supporters on its website, indicates France Bleu Loire Océan. Excesses took place during the Nantes-Le Havre match last Sunday, lost two to zero by the Canaries, during which Nantes supporters, unhappy with the performance of their team, attempted to invade the pitch. Nantes has not won since the end of August and finds itself in the play-off position before facing Paris Saint-Germain.

The two orders confirm this decision. The Ministry of the Interior recalls in its decree the incidents which have in the past marred the travel of Nantes supporters “likely to cause serious disturbances to public order, brawls between supporters and violence against the police or the throwing of projectiles or smoke bombs” from Nantes supporters.

This decision is all the more justified, explains the Ministry of the Interior “that the supporters of PSG and FC Nantes maintain relations marked by animosity, this antagonism translating, during each meeting, into serious clashes requiring the intervention of the police”.

Furthermore, the Hauts-de-Seine prefecture considers that “any chance or provoked encounter between elements at risk from PSG and FC Nantes would be likely to cause serious disturbances to public order, that on the occasion of this match, there is a significant risk that the supporters of the FC de Nantes make massive use of pyrotechnic devices, deploy banners hostile to the management of the Nantes club and multiply the invectives” et “that such maneuvers would be likely to cause tensions with the stewards and the Parisian supporters present in the adjoining stands.”