2023-12-05 22:02:37
She wants to “bang her fist on the table”. While French football has experienced numerous incidents throughout 2023 and was hit by the death of a Nantes supporter before a match against Nice in Ligue 1 on Saturday evening, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra is well determined to put an end to this infernal spiral.
Invited on RTL on Tuesday evening, the Minister of Sports was uncompromising and announced that she was in favor of a “moratorium on fan travel”.
“Fights between supporters lead to buses being stoned, to the police being over-extended on public roads, outside stadiums, we must first decide on a moratorium on the movement of supporters, we must let us tell ourselves that we cannot accept this situation, and bang our fists on the table together, she declared on RTL. I want us to have this moratorium by December 18, to have an initial discussion and then to have a strong and collective initiative in January with a complete action plan. »
On December 18, a meeting will bring together the National Supporterism Authority (INS) in the presence of the Professional Football League (LFP) and the Ministries of the Interior, Justice and Sports.
Orders are already regularly issued for so-called risky matches. The Bouches-du-Rhône Prefecture has thus banned the arrival of Lyon supporters in Marseille, for the Ligue 1 match which will be played on Wednesday.
Initially scheduled for October 29, this meeting did not start due to the stone crushing of the bus transporting the OL players to the Vélodrome stadium, which notably caused a facial injury to former Lyon coach Fabio Grosso.
On Monday, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra had already asked to prohibit the travel of opposing supporters “when the match presents a risk”. “We should not ban them all and definitively, since it is an important freedom to be able to travel to support your team,” she underlined on Tuesday, leaving the modalities of a possible moratorium unclear. .
She received Monday the support of Vincent Labrune, president of the LFP, for whom it is necessary to prohibit “the movements of supporters who are directly (or indirectly) at the origin of the majority of disturbances to public order and now tragedies that we meet “.
Saturday evening in Nantes, an hour before the start of the match counting for the 14th day of the championship, a 31-year-old man was killed during an altercation, when several VTC vehicles transporting Nice supporters were attacked by Nantes supporters. A VTC driver was indicted on Monday.
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