The poster is historic. Sunday, and for the first time in 47 years, two Parisian clubs will face each other in a meeting of the French Football Championship. At 8:45 p.m., Paris Saint-Germain will welcome its neighbor Paris FC for a meeting with high symbolic value.
With a thousand Paris FC supporters present, the visitor parking lot at the Parc des Princes will be full during this derby. But if the 10 euro places for supporters of the second club in the capital quickly disappeared, the parking lot will be mainly filled with “ordinary” supporters.
No PFC ultras
Indeed, this poster arrives in special circumstances for Paris FC and its ultras. After the fight between its two ultra groups on December 7 in Le Havre, Paris FC took sanctions. The Lutetia ultras (950 members) are prohibited from traveling until further notice and will therefore not be present against PSG’s neighbor.
On the Old Clan side, which has “gone dormant”, 80 members will be present, individually. They will not put down tarpaulins but will have a drum and two flags. “We will support the team as we always have. The Old Clan is dormant, its members are still fervent supporters,” the group tells us.
No special device on the PP side
Despite the significance of this meeting, this absence of the Paris FC ultras undoubtedly led the Paris police headquarters, which met on Tuesday with the two clubs, not to reinforce the security system that it usually puts in place for a Ligue 1 meeting at the Parc des Princes.
The meeting was not classified as a risk by the National Division for the Fight against Hooliganism (DNLH). On the PSG side, no specific measures have been taken by the club, which has “no particular fear” surrounding this unprecedented poster.
In terms of restrictions, the parking ban will come into force from 8 a.m. on all streets located in the immediate vicinity of the stadium, but also its neighbor Jean-Bouin, until one o’clock in the night from Sunday to Monday. A perimeter which concerns both Paris and Boulogne-Billancourt: rue du commande Guilbaud, avenue du Parc des Princes, allée Charles Brennus and rue de l’Arioste are among the roads concerned.
A new derby a week later
Subsequently, traffic will be completely prohibited in this same sector from 5:45 p.m., almost three hours before kick-off. Here again, the restrictions will not be lifted until one in the morning.
Eight days later, on Monday January 12, the two Parisian teams will face each other again, this time in the round of 16 of the Coupe de France. A meeting which will once again take place at the Parc des Princes. For the moment, the police headquarters has not yet published the decree which defines the various traffic and parking restrictions.
