“We can no longer tolerate this treatment”: the anger of the ultras is still prohibited from traveling for OM-PSG

The Paris ultras team is outraged and reports this. A group of PSG supporters issued a strongly worded press release on their social media just hours after Interior Ministry Gerald Darmanin banned Paris fans from traveling to Marseille for the Clasico on Sunday 31 March at the end of the 27th round of the League. 1.

“For almost 15 long years, we, Paris Saint-Germain fans, were banned from traveling to Marseille. Since October 24, 2009, our freedom to come and go has been violated, and our country has been unable to organize the travel of fans to the championship classics…” condemns the CUP.

“We no longer support this discriminatory treatment of football fans, just as we do not like the sanitized atmosphere of stadiums without opposing fans,” the Paris-based group continues.

In their press release, the Ultras Paris collective condemns more generally the numerous travel bans on all supporters of all clubs in France. “French fans face dozens of travel bans or restrictions all year round. Every season, the LFP disciplinary commission collectively punishes unruly fans and closes entire stadiums or popular stands,” he regrets.

“Football is nothing without fans”

In conclusion, the CUP indirectly addresses decision-makers: “We can no longer tolerate this kind of treatment, it is time for the state, prefectures and football authorities to take their responsibility and, like our Italian, German or English neighbors, finally be able manage fan travel.”

In October 2023, Gérard Darmanin and Amélie Oudea-Castera expressed a desire to limit prefectural regulations prohibiting the movement of supporters. Two months later, the sports minister changed her mind after the tragic death of a Nantes fan on the sidelines of the Nantes-Nice match.

Clásicos are very often subject to travel bans. Since February 2016, 14 of the 17 meetings between OM and PSG (excluding the Covid period) have been affected by an order from the Ministry of the Interior. The last ten Clásicos in a row have been played without fans of both clubs in the same stadium.

As the CUP recalls in its press release, Marseille fans were also banned from the Parc des Princes for the first match last September (4-0).

Already last year, the CUP hung a banner condemning this ban, which has become almost systematic: “14 years without a trip to Marseille… Are we sentenced to life imprisonment? »

Since 2016, the Collectif Ultras Paris group has returned to the Auteuil corner in the Parc des Princes after five years of absence due to the Leproux plan.