supporters demonstrate in front of the club’s headquarters and Neymar’s house, reinforced security system at Camp des Loges – Release

2023-05-04 11:21:41

Hundreds of supporters, including Ultras, gathered on Wednesday in front of the club’s headquarters, but also in front of Neymar’s home, in the Yvelines, according to several videos, overwhelmed by a new season without results worthy of the sums invested. Actions condemned by PSG.

Thursday morning, security was reinforced in front of Camp des Loges, PSG’s training center. It was also in front of the homes of the players targeted on Wednesday by the insults of the supporters: Neymar, Lionel Messi and Marco Verrati, AFP learned on Thursday from sources with knowledge of these measures.

The day before, Wednesday at the end of the day, several hundred supporters – most of the Ultras – gathered in front of Paris Saint-Germain HQ in Boulogne-Billancourt, to express their dissatisfaction with the club’s results. Insults rang out against the players mentioned above, as well as coach Christophe Galtier. “We are fed up with mercenaries! Messi must be fired! Nasser must be fired (Al-Khelaifi, club president)», “Leadership resignation” or even “Paris is us”could we hear in particular.

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Some, with smoke bombs in hand, expressly quoted players like Lionel Messi or Neymar and held up signs calling on players to “Wet the shirt” in front of club headquarters. “PSG: Who are you? Where are you going ? Can you hear me ?”, also wondered the Ultras on a banner. Several videos posted on Twitter also show supporters dressed in black, gathered in front of the house of Neymar, injured until the end of the season, in Bougival (Yvelines), and singing “Neymar break up”.

“Paris Saint-Germain condemns in the strongest terms the intolerable and insulting actions of a small group of individuals, which took place this Wednesday.reacted the club in the evening. Whatever the differences, nothing can justify such acts. The club gives its full support to its players, its management and to all those concerned by these shameful behaviors.

“No one respects you anymore”

These events took place three days after the defeat against Lorient at the Parc des Princes (3-1), the Parisian club’s third in the last four games played at home, plunging the Parisian team even further into crisis, even though which he points to at the head of the French championship.

“We are sincerely worried about the future and the sustainability of our club”worries the Collectif Ultras Paris (CUP), which wonders “if there is still a pilot in the plane”. According to the CUP, “the athlete is in total drift and this is due in particular to recruitment at a discount and without a global vision of collective needs”. He is also indignant at the “catastrophic management in recent years which has offered gold bridges to mercenaries, overrated and unconcerned players”.

For its part, Paris Saint-Germain opened disciplinary proceedings on Tuesday against its Argentine star Lionel Messi, who will be suspended several days after a trip to Saudi Arabia made without the agreement of his club. The sanction, which looks like a divorce certificate between the Argentine superstar and the club, probably marks the end of his story with PSG.

The Ultras have also expressed their refusal to leave the Parc des Princes, while the club has positioned itself for a possible takeover of the Stade de France. Already Monday evening, the day after the defeat against Lorient, some supporters had gathered in front of the Camp des Loges training center, with these banners: “No one respects you anymore. Why would we do that?” et “You do not represent our city in any way”.