Paris: 12 PSG “fans”, members of the far right, arrested before the match with Real Sociedad

New police repression against the far right. And to try to avoid the excesses associated with the Paris-Saint-Germain match this Wednesday evening. Twelve PSG supporters with “far-right aspirations” were arrested on Tuesday evening in Paris by police who suspected them of wanting to attack fans of Spanish club Real Sociedad, police and prosecutors said on Wednesday, confirming the information. from Actu Paris.

However, according to a source close to PSG, these were “former fans who were not welcome at the stadium and did not have tickets with them.” The risk of confrontation between fans of the two clubs, who will face each other on Wednesday night in the first leg of the round of 16 of the Champions League, was identified by the police intelligence unit (DRPP) at the Forum de Galles, in the heart of the capital.

According to a police source, police officers, in particular the Brav-M bikers, first noticed at around 10:30 pm “a group of about fifty Spanish supporters” gathering “peacefully” at a pub in the 1st arrondissement.

Hidden faces and protective gloves.

Shortly afterwards, on a street a few minutes’ walk away in the 6th arrondissement, police checked on a group of twelve men. “They were Parisian supporters who claimed to be far-right, wearing black hats to hide their faces, shell gloves and pyrotechnic devices,” the same source said.

“According to the prosecutor’s office, these were several PSG fans leaving the bar, two of them were wearing balaclavas and smoke bombs,” the Paris prosecutor’s office said.

They were arrested and placed in police custody “for participating in a group with the intent to commit violence or damage”, it added. “Based on the results of the reports, the prosecutor’s office decided to transfer the detainee to the prosecutor for possession of an incendiary device,” the prosecutor’s office said.

It added that a further eleven people were removed from custody “on the basis that neither offense was sufficiently serious”. An investigation has been launched and assigned to the Night Judicial Service (STJN), a police source concluded.