PSG will now control the tifos of the Parisian ultras at home

Football – Beauvau demanded accountability and obtained some. The banner displayed Wednesday evening during the reception of Atlético Madrid in the Champions League is already having consequences for Parisian supporters. Because at the end of a meeting held this Friday, November 8 between Paris Saint-Germain, the government and the French Football Federation, PSG promised that upstream control of the tifos would now take place.

A measure taken by the capital club to “ guarantee the absence of messages of a political nature » within the Parc des Princes. The day before, the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau had asked the club “ to explain themselves and for clubs to ensure that politics does not damage sport, which must always remain a catalyst for unity.”

“This tifo had no place in this stadium”also reacted the minister on X. The Ministry of the Interior also communicated for its part this Friday evening by announcing “the ban on tifos within the Auteuil stand until the end of the calendar year”.

A platform where the immense controversial tifo brandished by the Collectif ultras Paris (CUP) on Wednesday evening carried the message « Free Palestine »around the red and blue colors of the capital club. All decorated with a bloody Palestinian flag, the flag of Lebanon, tanks or even a person wearing a keffiyeh. With this message, a banner was also deployed, carrying the message “War on the ground but peace in the world”, as you can see below.

Other restrictive measures were also announced, while the day before, UEFA had assured that it would not initiate any proceedings against PSG, on the grounds that “the banner displayed could not be considered provocative or insulting in this specific case”.

PSG under surveillance

Another measure revealed at the end of this meeting: the ban on access to the Parc des Princes for the CUP outside match days, for an undefined period. According to another source close to a participant on the side of the Parisian club, the CUP did not “did not respect the rules”. Reason why PSG should announce in the near future “a number of other sanctions”.

The entourage of the Minister of Sports, Gil Avérous, confided after this meeting to AFP that a “ frank and constructive dialogue made it possible to identify solutions that PSG is committed to putting in place from the next match organized at the Parc des Princes. Namely November 22, for the reception in Toulouse.

During this meeting, the FFF was represented by its director of institutional and international relations Erwan Le Prévost, the PSG by its general director Victoriano Melero. In addition to the minister, the Secretary of State for Citizenship and the Fight against Discrimination Othman Nasrou, as well as the Paris Police Prefect Laurent Nunez were present.

“If the club's response is insufficient, it will be open to interpretation (…). If there are no sanctions, the Ministry of the Interior will not be satisfied with them”also slipped Othman Nasrou, according to a participant, emphasizing that Beauvau would be “attentive to the proper application of sanctions”. Paris under surveillance, therefore.

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