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Divorce football clubs and supporters

2021-02-12T21:58:10.322Z


INVESTIGATION - Actions, more or less violent, have taken place in Marseille, Bordeaux, Saint-Étienne, Nantes… Many supporters go to war against the leaders and the public authorities, whose decisions they contest.


Hooded supporters who storm the premises of the Olympique de Marseille.

A rain of projectiles that sows panic in the ranks of employees and players, barricaded.

Outside, a cloud of smoke envelopes the peaceful district of the Commanderie.

This is how a good hundred angry ultras - because they were indeed supporters and not infiltrated thugs - caused chaos within the Robert-Louis-Dreyfus training center, transformed into an entrenched camp , on January 30th.

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An unprecedented coup de force to definitively consummate the divorce between a club management - especially the deputy president, Jacques-Henri Eyraud - who seems to have lost control of the situation and a popular base no longer recognizing itself in the drifting project of the shareholder, Frank McCourt.

The American businessman, who called the troublemakers

"small groups of thugs",

dared a risky parallel with the recent invasion of the Capitol,

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Source: lefigaro

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