OM-OL incidents: behind the racist provocations of Lyon supporters, the far-right group Mezza Lyon

In the north parking lot of the Vélodrome stadium, Sunday October 29, a group of Lyon supporters, Mezza Lyon, stood out by doing monkey imitations and Nazi salutes. These racist provocations targeted Marseille supporters. Who is hiding behind this small far-right group? Few in number, these individuals are often hooded and dressed in black. Since his creation he About ten years ago, the group created a hostile climate in the stands. Already convicted by the courts, some are banned from stadiums. Others go so far as to pay their respects at Mussolini’s grave.

“It pollutes the image of the supporters”

In an Instagram group of Lyon supporters, the message is clear: Mezza doesn’t his place at their side. A member of the Bad Gones, a historic group of Lyon supporters, was present at the turn. “Of course, it pollutes the image of the supporters, the club, the city. Now we’re all going to have an image plastered on our foreheads that we’re all fascists.”he laments. At Lyon 1950, another emblematic group of supporters, there too, these acts do not pass. An investigation was opened for incitement to racial hatred and racial insults.