2023-06-03 09:17:50
While incidents took place in the Corsican city on Friday evening, the prefecture decided to create a fan-zone to contain Marseille fans.
The prefecture of Corse-du-Sud announced on Saturday morning the creation of a fan zone for the approximately 600 Marseille supporters expected for the Ligue 1 Ajaccio-OM match and their ban on entering the city after incidents in the center. from Ajaccio on Friday evening.
The mayor of the city, Stéphane Sbraggia, had asked for the cancellation of the match on Friday evening so that the supporters, most of whom are due to arrive on Saturday, do not “do not expose themselves to a risk of violence which is already present and which could take on an uncontrollable scale“. The prefecture finally chose to issue a new decree to prohibit “to anyone claiming the quality of supporting and arriving by sea or air, to movein Ajaccio or Grosseto-Prugna. While waiting for the match as part of the 38th and last day of Ligue 1, scheduled for 9:00 p.m., they will have to go to Ricanto beach near the airport where “a reception system is organized».
Two municipal decrees and a prefectural decree had already been taken in particular to prohibit them from accessing the center of Ajaccio, where a local festival is also held. But Friday, incidents opposed supporters, in particular near a hotel where Marseillais were staying. “There was one arrest and four minor injuries“, we learned from the police. Around the establishment, where the damage is significant, “there was a brawl between two groups with provocations. Thirty-five Marseille supporters were in the hotel in a defensive position with people attacking them“, according to the police. The police fired tear gas to disperse them and calm returned around midnight.
Saturday night, “it is absolutely vital that the fisherman’s party is over at the end of the game“, still insist the police. On the occasion of St Erasmus, patron saint of fishermen, a family and popular festival takes place every year on the port of the city for three days.
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