Clashes between PSG and OL supporters earlier than the Coupe de France ultimate | EUROtoday

Published on : 05/25/2024 – 8:24 p.m.

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A bus caught fireplace and twenty individuals had been barely injured on Saturday May 25 throughout clashes between OL and PSG supporters at a motorway toll sales space close to Arras, simply earlier than the Coupe de France ultimate in Lille. , info condemned “with the greatest firmness” by President Emmanuel Macron.

According to the Pas-de-Calais prefecture, this brawl passed off between supporters of the 2 groups who had been going to the Pierre-Mauroy stadium in Villeneuve d'Ascq round 6:00 p.m. on the A1 motorway, on the Fresnes-lès toll gate. -Montauban (Pas-de-Calais), about sixty kilometers from Lille.

“A hundred individuals were involved and a bus caught fire,” she stated, including that “18 buses of Parisian supporters returned to Lille.” “Lyon supporters were also excluded,” she continued.

“At this stage, 20 minor injuries have been recorded” among the many supporters, all “treated upon their arrival at the stadium by the SAMU du Nord”.

“These are sporting events where we must above all be joyful and sporty. I condemn with the greatest firmness all violence,” declared the Head of State throughout a public stroll in Tourcoing. “I hope things will go as normally as possible this evening,” he added, confirming that he would go to the stadium.

No arrests

According to a police supply, the clashes “opposed around a hundred Lyon supporters to nearly 200 Parisian supporters” and “the toll barrier (was) partially set on fire”.

This supply additionally reviews six cops barely injured, a toll not confirmed by the Pas-de-Calais prefecture. No individual was arrested, in keeping with the police supply.

According to a supply on the gendarmerie, this violence adopted “an untimely meeting between Lyon and Paris supporters”.

“The significant security system put in place for the match and in particular the police escorts to supervise the ultras made it possible to quickly put an end to the clashes, despite damaged buses,” wrote the Northern prefecture on X.

The A1 motorway stays minimize in each instructions, in keeping with the Pas-de-Calais prefecture.

At the Stade Pierre-Mauroy, the ultimate of the Coupe Gambardella between Marseille and Nancy, which is being performed as a curtain-raiser to that of the Coupe de France, was interrupted round ten minutes after the throwing of a projectile by Parisian supporters , already current within the stadium, in the direction of the OM goalkeeper.

OL and PSG followers insulted one another throughout this assembly, famous an AFP journalist.

Alcohol prohibited

During the day, Parisian supporters, however particularly Lyon supporters, animated the streets of downtown Lille in a good-natured ambiance, famous an AFP journalist. An spectacular police power is deployed within the metropolis.

According to the Pas-de-Calais prefecture, 1,000 cops and gendarmes had been mobilized to safe the assembly and 1,000 others to handle safety within the stadium.

Calling for “the collective and individual responsibility of supporters”, the Northern prefecture had put in place a number of administrative measures as a part of this assembly categorised as very excessive danger.

Supporters of OL and PSG are subsequently prohibited from shifting “outside the spaces reserved for them” and can’t cross paths close to the enclosure.

The prefecture had additionally requested the supporters of every staff to every use a distinct metro line, with separate metro stops, to get to the stadium and to keep away from the chance of overflows as a lot as attainable.

Another ban: the consumption on public roads and terraces of Lezennes, Lille and Villeneuve d'Ascq of alcohol “in a glass or metal container” till Sunday 4 a.m.

With Reuters and AFP