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Foot: politicians intervene in the conflict between OM and its supporters

2021-02-15T22:28:12.526Z


Several politicians, including the mayor of Marseille, have defended the supporters of the Olympique de Marseille and called on the club president to "calm things down".


The mayor of Marseille on Monday invited OM president Jacques-Henri Eyraud to

"calm things down"

with club fans, after a new surge of fever in the conflict between the two parties around a

"formal notice »

Sent to supporters groups.

Read also: Olympique de Marseille: the reasons for a chaos that will leave traces

“The supporters are the soul of the club.

Their formal notice by the management is incomprehensible, there cannot be tens of thousands of Marseillais who pay the consequences of a few excited, already in court.

I wrote to Jacques-Henri Eyraud to calm things down

,

wrote Benoît Payan on social networks.

Earlier in the day, OM announced the upcoming launch of a

"major consultation"

with

"all the supporters of the club"

, an initiative called "Agora OM", which comes a fortnight after the serious incidents that have took place at the Commanderie training center.

In the press release presenting “Agora OM”, Hugues Ouvrard, general manager of the club, affirms that OM “

has taken the decision to no longer tolerate any violence committed by ultra supporters”

:

“We have notified them by sending a letter of formal notice stating our desire to put an end to these practices ”.

According to the daily

La Provence

, OM would consider in this context to

"put an end to the convention on subscriptions"

which binds the club and groups of organized supporters.

Asked by AFP on this subject, OM did not respond on Monday evening.

"Hand held out"

In addition to Benoît Payan, several Marseille politicians reacted on Monday evening, also in defense of the supporters.

“The # OM is our city.

It's our life!

The #supporters associations are the beating heart of our club in the city but also outside.

@jheyraud and @OM_Officiel, don't be fooled, ”

Martine Vassal, LR president of the Aix-Marseille metropolis and the Bouches-du-Rhône department, launched on Twitter.

"What the supporters expect are results (...) and not a disguised dissolution of their supporters' clubs"

, also reacted Samia Ghali, deputy mayor of the city.

In an interview with AFP on Monday, Hugues Ouvrard, for his part, presented "Agora OM" as a

"hand extended to all the supporters"

, including the fringe who attacked the Commandery on January 30.

Initiated by President Jacques-Henri Eyraud, the “Agora OM” project is

“not demagoguery”

nor

“a Théodule committee”

, insisted the CEO of the club, ensuring he wanted to

“start a dialogue and put in place a plan action ”

to

“ overhaul the system of supporterism ”.

“We place the supporters at the heart of the project, OM is a popular club and must remain so.

On the other hand, we can no longer tolerate violence, ”

said the leader, explaining that this initiative followed the incidents of the Commandery.

Before the OM-Rennes match, around 300 Olympian supporters had triggered violent incidents in front of the entrance gate of the training center, a few dozen of them even managing to enter.

Fourteen of the attackers are to be tried on February 24, three more on March 22.

Five of them are still in detention.

On February 3, in a joint statement, the six groups of OM supporters demanded the departure of President Eyraud, the target of their criticism.

Source: lefigaro

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