The tone has hardened. The Interior Ministry announced on Tuesday the dissolution of the “Strasbourg Offender” hooligan grouping, so -called Racing Club supporters of Strasbourg involved in cases of violence in recent years.
This group has about “thirty members to the profile of hooligan supporters classified at risk”, according to a decree dated September 8 published in the Official Journal.
They are “regularly involved in violence and brawls or attempted brawls that have caused several injured and in degradations committed against goods, in sports speakers or on their surroundings,” he added, drawing up a list of incidents over the years.
“A hunt for Jews”
Its members commit and legitimize “acts encouraging hatred towards individuals because of their origin, their belonging, true or supposed, to an ethnicity, a nation, a determined race or religion”, he also underlines.
The decree thus recalls events that occurred in July 2019, on the occasion of the arrival in Strasbourg of the Israeli Maccabi Haïfa football team.
More gathering or logo
A dozen members of the group had called for “a hunt for Jews in the streets of downtown Strasbourg”. The day of the match, supporters of the Maccabi Haifa had been attacked by these hooligans.
The “Strasbourg Offender” is a “de facto” group, which has no legal existence “but identifies itself through common symbols, in particular by a black flag on which is inscribed the name of the group decorated with a white crown”, specifies the decree.
Its dissolution means in particular that he will no longer be able to organize rallies or use his logos.
