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Are you banned from a football stadium? Buy someone else’s place!
Are you banned from a football stadium? Buy someone else’s place!
(SPECIAL SUBJECT / FRANCE 2)
How can we keep the hooligans who sow terror in the stands at home? There is indeed a ban on commercial stadiums which can be imposed by clubs, but it is not too difficult to circumvent… Demonstration in Marseille in this extract from “Additional investigation”.
How do you go to see a match when you are banned from the stadium (in the case of a commercial ban)? In reality, there is nothing very complicated about it, as this extract from “Additional investigation” shows. Just buy someone else’s place. The tickets are nominative, it’s true, but the clubs almost never check the identity of their holders. So a traffic developed, called “coal mining”. In Marseille, some ultras have made it a specialty.
On the internet, the journalist from “Complément d’investigation” made contact with one of them. To exchange two places for 40 euros (for a Marseille-Nantes, but prices can rise up to 130 euros for the poster of the season, the meeting with PSG), he suggests a meeting in the park opposite of the Vélodrome.
Our salesman, who would be an active member of a group of supporters, is holding around ten subscriber cards. To allow them to enter the stadium with seats normally reserved for season ticket holders, he provides two to the journalist and the young woman who accompanies her. He will send them an SMS to collect these cards a little later, inside the Vélodrome.
The cards are in the name of… Ghislain and Raymond, but no verification will be made during the first check, at the entrance to the stadium. At the second checkpoint, there is a gate to pass. Neither of the two “subscribers”, who are supposed to come to every match, knows how to scan the card… but that doesn’t pose a problem for the stewards. Once in the corridors of the Vélodrome, the cards are returned to the seller, and that’s it…
Extract from “Hooligans: bringing football back to reason!”, a document to be seen in “Additional investigation” on June 13, 2024.
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