Not the same jersey, but the same passion: that of supporting your team at the stadium. This Saturday, January 24, the Collectif Ultras Paris, the main group of PSG supporters, published a press release in which it asked the authorities (the Professional Football League, the French Football Federation, and the Paris Police Prefecture) to authorize the movement of Marseille supporters to the Parc des Princes.
In two weeks, on February 8, PSG welcomes OM as part of the 21st day of Ligue 1, for once again a highly anticipated clasico. “Despite the travel ban which hit Parisian supporters in the first leg and in the past, we defend the principle of freedom to support your club wherever it plays,” explained the CUP in its press release.
Fed up with the “systematic policy of prohibition”
Earlier in the week, the Paris police headquarters announced a traffic and parking ban “on any person claiming to be a supporter of the Olympique de Marseille team”. A ban valid both for the trip to the Parc des Princes on February 8 and for the trip to Jean-Bouin on January 31 for the match against Paris FC.
An unacceptable decision in the eyes of supporters, particularly Paris Saint-Germain. “The Classics must once again become real shocks, played in an organized, supervised framework and in dialogue with the supporters of both camps (…) It is still possible to demonstrate that in France, there is a culture of organization, anticipation and dialogue, rather than a systematic policy of prohibition”, specifies the CUP which also claims the same request for the travel of Parisians to the Vélodrome.
“The current situation makes France an incomprehensible exception,” we can also read in the press release. “It is not too late to act,” also assures the CUP.
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