While uncertainty reigned over the presence or not of Nantes supporters at the Parc des Princes on Saturday evening (8:45 p.m.), the Ministry of the Interior issued a travel ban order this Friday for Canaries fans.
Nantes fans are now set. The Ministry of the Interior issued an order this Friday banning the travel of FC Nantes supporters on Saturday (8:45 p.m.) to Paris for the PSG-Nantes match at the Parc des Princes, we learned from the ministry. The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, took this decision in view of the announced presence of “more than 1,000 Nantes supporters including 250 ultras, members of the Loire Brigade”, according to the text of the decree consulted by AFP . It also reports the presence of “1,200 members of the Ultra Paris collective” and “around fifteen members of Block Parisii”.
In the morning, in a note also consulted by AFP, the authorities had deemed “possible” “tensions, even violence due to a historical dispute between supporters of the two teams”.
“A proven risk of serious disturbances to public order”
In his decree, Bruno Retailleau argues that “under these conditions and taking into account the presence of these groups of high-risk supporters, due to their violent behavior at home or on the move (…), there is a proven risk serious disturbances to public order both before and after the meeting”.
He considers that the measures taken by the police prefect establishing a security perimeter around the Parc des Princes and the mobilization of the police “cannot be sufficient to prevent these risks”. Consequently, he judges that “only a ban on individual and collective travel by people claiming to be supporters of FC Nantes or behaving as such is likely to avoid” unrest on Saturday. At the start of the week, the Ministry of the Interior confirmed to AFP that it was “studying” the launch of a procedure to dissolve the Loire Brigade.
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