stay seated, do not bring a flag or an ultras outfit… The club reminds you of the instructions to follow in the Boulogne stand at the Parc des Princes

Stay seated in your place, do not swap seats, do not bring supporters’ equipment and do not wear “ultras” type outfits, such as black hooded clothes: instructions for spectators in the Boulogne stand were sent on Tuesday April 18 by e-mail by Paris Saint-Germain, as a reminder to members of the “fan club”, those who live outside Paris.

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“It’s a stand that has become very calm, in which people are rather courteous, it’s very family-friendly unlike what it was, explains Benoît, a member of the targeted fan clubs, and regular at the Boulogne stand, which has been emptied of its ultras since the Leproux plan in 2010. That’s why the fact of imposing these rules as if we were animals, I find it disrespectful as possible. We are in a football stadium! Otherwise we go to the opera…”

A “clumsy and draconian” email for a group of supporters

The club recognizes a clumsiness but assumes these measures, even unpopular, the priority being to avoid the return “extremes” in the “Boulogne” stand. “It’s yet another snub from PSG to its supporters, to its public, to the people who were there before Qatar arrived, adds Benoît, who is not losing his temper. It may be time to stand up against this direction…” These supporters could give up the hundreds of kilometers traveled twice a month to get to the Parc des Princes.

In its press release, the club mentions that “failure to comply with these instructions could penalize the whole group with regard to the allocation of match tickets for PSG matches”. For the Ultras Paris collective, this email is “particularly clumsy and liberticidal. (…) The public remains free to encourage their team in the way they wish in compliance with the laws in force without having to suffer repression from who knows who within the club”adds the collective in a press release, “waiting for answers”.