Wearing the PSG jersey will be banned in central Marseille on the evening of the final

The legendary rivalry between Paris SG and OM has struck again on the side of the Marseille city. The prefect of police of Bouches-du-Rhône signed a decree on Thursday banning the wearing of the Parisian jersey in the city center on Sunday on the occasion of the Champions League final between the Parisian club and Bayern Munich! A decision taken to prevent any disturbance to public order “even if” no information has come to confirm any mobilization planned for the final “, explains the police headquarters at Parisian. A fan of Paris SG will not even be able to wear “a simple scarf”! Sunday between 3:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m., the “presence of PSG supporters or people posing as such and behaving as such” is prohibited around the Old Port, where many bars broadcast the matches, for safety reasons, indicated to AFP the police headquarters, confirming the information of the Parisian. The text of the prefect of police argues in particular “that there is a strong animosity on the part of some Marseillais, supporters or not, towards the PSG team, in contradiction with any sporting spirit”.

An individual arrested for acts of violence on a PSG fan

The decree, which will not be published until Friday, was taken following incidents that punctuated the broadcast of Tuesday night’s semi-final match. It must be said that while Parisian supporters were celebrating on the Champs-Elysées or near the Parc des Princes, the historic qualification of the capital club after the victory on Tuesday against Leipzig (3-0), incidents broke out in the Marseille city between supporters of the two clubs. Tuesday evening, according to the police headquarters, gatherings of more than 250 people took place in Marseille, giving rise to two attacks on people wearing a Parisian club jersey, and “attempts at intimidation aimed at interrupting the retransmission of the match”. The newspaper Provence revealed that an individual had been arrested for acts of violence against a man who wore a jersey of the Parisian club near the Old Port. And at least two establishments around the Old Port had been forced to stop broadcasting the match under pressure from several dozen people…. In this context, the decision of the Prefecture of Bouches-du-Rhône seems “logical” … This type of order is thus systematically taken by the police headquarters within the perimeter of the Vélodrome stadium when the Minister of the Interior pronounces travel bans for supporters.