Four PSG ultras arrested on 1 February 2022 for stealing a tarpaulin belonging to Roazhon Celtic Kop (RCK), an ultras group from the Rennes stadium, were sentenced on Wednesday 21 December to a fine of 600 euros, according to AFP. One of them will have to pay four euros a day for 150 days, two will have to pay the amount at once, and the last one received only a conditional fine. The Rennes court found them guilty of “stealing meetings.”
They were initially charged with “violent theft” after a group of Rennes supporters denounced “an ambush that directly undermines the safety of the family” of an RCK member who had a tarp in his car. Eight to twelve months’ imprisonment or probation was requested against them. But the court did not take into account the facts of violence and “returned the case to its normal size,” as the lawyer of one of the defendants, Me Olivier Pacho, welcomed. “It’s not about bullying,” he said.
In February, PSG broke away from these ultras, seeing them as “violent hooligans”. The four men, aged between 30 and 40, were suspected of belonging to Karsud, a group formed in 1993 around PSG. This group hasn’t played games since 2017-18 and, according to the referee, “only deals with street clashes and stealing equipment.” All the defendants denied belonging to this group and spoke of a “failed joke”, admitting theft, “but without violence”.
Source: Le Parisien
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