PSG supporters again banned from traveling to Marseille

As every year since 2015, Paris Saint-Germain supporters will again be banned from traveling to Marseille, Sunday February 26, to support their team against Olympique de Marseille, during the 25th day of Ligue 1, according to a decree of the Ministry of the Interior published Thursday. This new “classic” on Sunday promises to be a pivotal match, as only five points separate the Parisian leader from his Marseille runner-up.

Parisian supporters had already been banned from traveling to Marseille on February 8 for the round of 16 of the Coupe de France football between the two great rivals, won by the Olympians (2-1). Moreover, the collective of Parisian ultras had brandished a banner during the PSG-Toulouse match, four days before the trip of their team to Marseille: “Fourteen years without going to Marseille, are we condemned to life?”

“Troubles in public order between the two clubs”

Invoking the “rivalry“between the supporters of the two clubs having”caused in the past and on a recurring basis serious disturbances to public order”the police chief of Bouches-du-Rhône had taken, at the beginning of February, orders prohibiting Parisian supporters “access the Stade Vélodrome and move around or park around it and in nearby districts” for the two matches of February 8 and 26.

The ministerial decree, published Thursday in the Official Journal, supplements these provisions by prohibiting “on Sunday February 26, 2023 from midnight to midnight, the individual or collective travel, by any means, of any person claiming to be a supporter of Paris-Saint-Germain or behaving as such, between the municipalities of the region of Ile-de-France and the municipality of Marseille“.