Lazio Rome coach Maurizio Sarri openly criticized the decision of Gérald Darmanin, who banned Roman supporters from traveling to the Velodrome.
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Lazio Rome will have to compose without its supporters at the Velodrome on Thursday for the Europa League match. A situation that does not please Maurizio Sarri, who estimated at a press conference on Wednesday evening that the French authorities had made a “bullshit”.
Since Monday, a decree from the Ministry of the Interior has banned all travel in the Marseille city to supporters of the Roman club, actions sometimes considered fascist. In their viewfinder, the “violent behavior of some supporters” from Lazio “recurrently around the stadiums and in the city centers of the meeting places” as well as “the repeated interpretation of fascist chants and the performance of Nazi salutes”.
“Who wrote this statement? It is the French authorities? So if I were Lotito (the president of Lazio), I would invite the French Minister of the Interior to come and watch a Lazio match at home. would realize that he did something stupid “, said the Italian coach at a press conference on the eve of the match.
Sarri “If I were Lotito, I would invite Gerald Darmanin to the Olimpico so that he would realize he was saying bullshit” pic.twitter.com/cFukD8HcEy
– FrSerieA (@FrSerieA) November 3, 2021
As early as Monday, the Italian club reacted by press release, indicating that the decree constituted a “offends the club and all its supporters “ and calling for a “clarification of French institutions and a clear position of our diplomacy”.
Note that during the first leg on October 21 (0-0), OM supporters were also banned from traveling to Rome. About the last meeting between OM and Lazio at the Vélodrome, which dates back to October 25, 2018, the decree emphasizes that ” four people [avaient] were wounded by knives during a brawl involving nearly 200 supporters ”.