four Angers supporters in custody after the excesses at Angers-Marseille

Four Angers supporters aged 22 to 35 were taken into custody and heard on Wednesday November 17, as part of the investigation into the excesses during the Angers-Marseille match (0-0) on September 22 in the League 1, AFP learned from the Angers prosecutor’s office.

“The investigation made it possible to identify five Angevin supporters, they were summoned this morning to the police station, four showed up. They were taken into custody”, told AFP the prosecutor of the Republic of Angers Éric Bouillard, confirming information from the local press.

Marseille supporters “will be heard later, but very soon”, said the prosecutor.

On September 22, after throwing firecrackers, several dozen Marseille supporters left the visitors’ area to confront the Angevin ultras in the neighboring stand before the stewards restored order. No one had been hurt.

According to the prosecutor, the respondents from Anjou are heard “for having entered the sports area without authorization and disrupting the competition, a specific violation of the sports code”.

And, “a priori three of them” are suspected of having committed violence “either on stewards, or on opponents from the opposite camp, from OM”, detailed the prosecutor.

At the beginning of October, the disciplinary committee of the Professional Football League had cracked down after these incidents, Marseille suffering in particular from a withdrawal of one point suspended. Angers had been sanctioned with two games behind closed doors for his Coubertin stand, one of which was suspended, and a fine of 20,000 euros.