The Lens-PSG match scheduled for Saturday, December 4 in League 1 will be played without Parisian supporters, under a decree taken by the prefect of Pas-de-Calais who invokes security reasons facing “heavy litigation between the two clubs“.
A decision following the dispute between the two clubs
Classified at major risk by the National Division of Fight against Hooliganism (DNLH), the meeting, which will also be played on the same day as Lille-Troyes, will oppose two teams whose fans hardly appreciate each other. The decree cites “the degradation of the official bus of Lensois players by Parisian supporters during the night of May 1 to 2, 2021” and “the movement of Parisian supporters (…) to attack Lensois supporters and visitors to the city center of Lens” after the meeting between Lens and Saint-Etienne on August 15th.
No person _ “availing himself of the quality of supporter of Paris Saint-Germain or behaving as such” _not be able to access the Bollaert-Delelis stadium, nor to frequent its surroundings and the city center of Lens, from Saturday December 4 at 6 am until ‘to Sunday 6 am, specifies the decree.