“It’s a failure to monitor what goes into the stadiums,” said Arnaud Hermant, senior reporter at “L’Équipe”

The attack on Israeli supporters has revived the problem of violence by certain football spectators and politics in sport. The gigantic banner, a “Free Palestine” tifo, deployed Wednesday evening by the Ultras at the Parc des Princes during the PSG Champions League match against Atlético de Madrid sparked many reactions. Arnaud Hermant, senior reporter in the newspaper's football section The Teamagreed to comment on the affair on franceinfo, Friday November 8.

The defense of Paris Saint-Germain, who explains that he was not aware of the Ultras project, “is hard to believe”admits the journalist, who specifies that the tifo covered the 6,000 seats in the stand and that “the problem is multiple”.

“It’s a lack of surveillance, of control of what enters the stadiums”believes above all Arnaud Hermant, who emphasizes that “access reserved for dynamic supporters, Ultras, or Hooligans when they are violent, are real sieves”. Arnaud Hermant talks about supporters who “force entries” and probable “complicity with security companies who turn a blind eye”.

For Arnaud Hermant, we must now determine whether the tifo “was introduced in its entirety a few days before the match or reconstituted on site”. According to his sources, the journalist leans towards the second explanation.

Watch the full interview in the video above.