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Paris Saint-Germain supporters will again be banned from traveling to Marseille on Sunday February 26 to support their team against Olympique de Marseille in the league, according to a decree from the Ministry of the Interior published on Thursday. Parisian supporters had already been banned from traveling to Marseille on February 8 for the round of 16 of the Coupe de France football between the two great rivals, won by the Olympians 2 to 1, a first victory for more than ten years at the stadium. Velodrome. Invoking the ” rivalry ” between the supporters of the two clubs having ” caused in the past and on a recurring basis serious disturbances to public order “, the prefect of police of Bouches-du-Rhône had taken orders at the beginning of February prohibiting Parisian supporters” to access the Stade Vélodrome and to circulate or park “around it” and in nearby districts for the two matches on February 8 and 26. A ministerial decree published Thursday in the Official Journal supplements these provisions by prohibiting ” on Sunday February 26, 2023 from midnight to midnight, the individual or collective travel, by any means, of any person claiming to be a supporter of Paris-Saint-Germain or behaving as such, (…) between the municipalities in the Ile-de-France region and the municipality of Marseille ».