PSG-AC Milan: reinforced security, Naples supporters expected at the Parc des Princes

2023-10-25 01:51:54

A PSG-AC Milan under increased surveillance. The Champions League meeting which will pit the Parisians against the Milanese on Wednesday evening (9 p.m.) will be particularly scrutinized by the police. The capital club will play its first European match at home since moving to the “emergency attack” level of the Vigipirate system after the knife attack in a high school in Arras (Pas-de-Calais).

The police headquarters, in charge of securing the surroundings of the Parc des Princes, announces a “system adapted to this type of encounter and reinforced due to the terrorist risk”. According to The teamaround 500 members of the police will be assigned to secure this meeting where around 2,000 Italian supporters are expected to push Mike Maignan and his partners.

Neapolitans invited to the Auteuil bend

But AC Milan supporters are not the only ones to make the trip from the Boot. Naples supporters are expected at the Parc des Princes, and more precisely in the Auteuil bend. The K-Soce Team, a member group of the Collectif Ultras Paris, invited members of Curva B. The two groups of supporters have a long-standing friendship, and the Parisians went to the Diego Armando Maradona stadium, then called San Paolo, in 2018.

The antagonism between the Lombards and the Neapolitans, who will face each other in the championship on Sunday, further worries the police. The latter will monitor possible gatherings in the capital in the hours preceding the kick-off of the match.

2,000 PSV Eindhoven supporters are also coming to Lens this Tuesday evening, where the RCL faces the Dutch club. The Pas-de-Calais prefecture fears the presence of 500 hooligans and has strengthened its system for this match classified as very high risk (4 out of 5) in the scale of the National Division for the Fight against Hooliganism (DNLH).