If their position was not already clear enough, there is now no room for doubt.
The Collectif ultras Paris (CUP), the association of Parisian ultras installed in the Auteuil bend of the Parc des Princes, very strongly made its position heard and seen in the Parc des Princes file, this Saturday evening during the PSG match against in Lille, with banners and insulting chants against the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo.
“Without PSG, the Park no longer has a Prince,” could we read on one of these banners, deployed at the start of the second half.
“Hidalgo kills Paris and its magic”.
A reference to the endless conflict between the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and PSG around the sale of the Parc des Princes, the impossibility of which pushed Nasser Al-Khelaïfi to reiterate in recent days that the departure of the club from the capital of its historic enclosure had become inevitable.
“A stadium created for the people, taken over by politicians,” read another set of banners.
The Auteuil tribune also sang for long minutes hostile songs to the Parisian councilor, the most innocent ("Hidalgo, resignation!", "at the Parc des Princes we will always be there"), taken up and limply applauded by the rest of the stadium, to the most insulting and problematic (“Hidalgo, vaff…”).
The announcer at the Parc des Princes had to reprimand the public: “No room for intolerance, otherwise the match will be stopped”.