No travel to Brittany for Montpellier supporters. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, in fact banned them from going to Brest on Sunday (3 p.m.) for the match on the 18th day of Ligue 1, citing “a real and serious risk of clashes”. In a decree dated January 9 published Thursday in the Official Journal, the Minister considers that the Montpellier club’s travels “are frequently sources of disturbances to public order due to the violent behavior of certain supporters.”
He refers in particular to the clashes ahead of the Nantes-Montpellier match on May 20 (0-3), and also recalls the frequent excesses during home matches at Stade Brestois. He cites as an example the case of the Lensois bus guard, Brice Samba, victim of a “projectile thrown by a Brest supporter” on February 5, 2023. His decree finally evokes “relations marked by animosity” between the supporters of the two teams synonymous with “systematic clashes since August 2022”. “On November 26, 2023 in Montpellier, the Brest supporters’ bus was the subject of projectiles before and after the match, causing material damage and injuring two Brest supporters,” declared Mr. Darmanin.
