Banned from traveling to Marseille, MHSC supporters in the viewfinder of the Minister of the Interior

magictr | February 24, 2024 | Sport | No Comments

Les supporters de Montpellier dans le viseur des autorités.

Le ministre de l'Intérieur Gérald Darmanin a interdit le déplacement à Marseille des supporters du Montpellier Hérault pour le match de Ligue 1, dimanche 25 février, contre l'OM, selon un arrêté publié dans le Journal officiel vendredi.

Cette interdiction de déplacement est justifiée par "a real and serious risk of clash between the supporters of the two clubs (…) on the occasion of the football match between the two teams on Sunday February 25, 2024 at 8:45 p.m. & quot; at the Vélodrome while "the police are strongly mobilized to face the terrorist threat"< /em> and will be particularly so in Marseille on Sunday to secure various demonstrations.

The movements of Montpellier "sources of trouble"

The order thus recalls that the "trips of the Montpellier Hérault Sport Club (MHSC) club are frequently sources of disturbances to public order due to the violent behavior of certain supporters or individuals claiming to be supporters of the club. this team, manifested recurrently around the stadiums and in the city centers of the meeting places, both through brawls between supporters and through violence against the police or the throwing of projectiles or smoke bombs. quot;.

He also underlines that in Marseille "the disturbances to public order and the violent behavior of Marseille supporters persist on the occasion of meetings between OM and a visiting club with which there is a particular rivalry (…), despite the implementation of measures to control the movement of supporters by the police prefect of Bouches- du-Rhône".

Stones in 2023

In March 2023, in Marseille, a bus of Montpellier supporters was the target of projectiles from their Marseille counterparts, causing a brawl and requiring an intervention by the police, one of whose members was injured", specifies the decree, while on December 20 in Montpellier, "while a ministerial ban on the movement of Marseille supporters and a prefectural perimeter decree had been taken, two Marseille supporters invited to the presidential stand by the MHSC club were subject to of projectile throwing by Montpellier supporters.