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Nantes-Toulouse is more than a final of the Coupe de France, which will take place on Saturday evening April 29 in Saint-Denis. It is a political meeting, in the midst of a social crisis, between President Macron and the unions, who have every intention of making themselves heard, despite the ban on the gathering by the prefect of police.
The trophy is one of the most coveted. Impossible to be mistaken, seeing these dozens of coaches departing from Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), Saturday morning April 29. They will be 21,000 Toulouse supporters, Saturday evening in Paris, more than 50,000 on the Nantes side. The Coupe de France final is one of the biggest matches of the year. Yet Saturday morning again, the discussions are more political than tactical. 78,000 spectators, 3,000 police, 1,400 security guards. The meeting is classified at risk, due to possible clashes between supporters.
Infringement of civil liberties
But the prefecture has also banned union gatherings nearby, to avoid other difficulties in managing the flow of spectators. Prohibited also, the distribution of whistles, imagined by the unions. This is against the rules of the French Football Federation. But the unions do not admit defeat. “I simply call on all the spectators of the match, to arrive with their whistle and with their red card”, said on France 2 Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT. The inter-union denounces an attack on public freedoms. An appeal was filed with the administrative court. It is obviously the presence of President Macron that crystallizes the tensions.
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