Paris Saint-Germain followers in Marseille will have to preserve a low profile on potentially their club’s biggest night, as local police said on Thursday they would ban the club shirt in some areas at some point of the Champions League final.
PSG face Bayern Munich in Lisbon on Sunday evening, attempting to grow to be solely the 2nd French winners after Marseille, who gained controversially in 1993.
The Bouches-du-Rhone police prefecture proven on Thursday that it intended to ban, from 15.00 neighborhood time on Sunday afternoon to 3 Monday morning, “the presence of PSG supporters or human beings providing themselves as such and behaving as such” round the ancient Old Port, where many bars broadcast the matches.
Tensions between fans of the two clubs are so strong that the French indoors ministry issues travel bans for away followers when the clubs meet and police systematically arrest fans in PSG shirts in Marseille’s Velodrome stadium.
The police said, “There is robust animosity on the part of some Marseilles residents, supporters or not, towards the PSG team, in contradiction with any carrying spirit”.
The order follows incidents at some point of the broadcast of Tuesday evening’s semi-final in which PSG beat RB Leipzig.
The police said gatherings of greater than 250 human beings took area in Marseille and there were two assaults on humans carrying PSG shirts, and “attempts to intimidate them in order to interrupt the broadcasting of the match”.
(AFP)
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