This is one more episode in the file of the sale of the Parc des Princes to the Paris Saint-Germain football club, PSG.
This time, it will take place on a legal level due to the events that occurred on Saturday February 10 in the Porte de Saint-Cloud stadium.
The deputy mayor of Paris, Pierre Rabadan, announced on Monday the municipality's intention to take the matter to the Professional Football League (LFP) as well as to the courts "so that sanctions can be taken".
This decision comes after the mayor of the capital, Anne Hidalgo, was targeted by part of the stadium during the match against Lille (3-1).
We want PSG to stay at the Park.
And the Park must remain for Parisians.
The comments heard in the stands on Saturday, insulting & homophobic, have no place in Paris or in the stadiums.
We will take the matter to the @LFPfr and to the courts so that sanctions can be taken.
https://t.co/mBxRFtDXmE
— Pierre Rabadan (@PierreRabadan) February 12, 2024
At the start of the second period, banners targeting the mayor (“Hidalgo kills Paris and its magic”, “Without PSG the Park no longer has a prince”) were deployed in the Auteuil stand, occupied by the Collectif ultras Paris (UPC).
Political slogans (“Hidalgo resignation”), but also insulting ones, were launched, echoed by part of the stadium.
An announcement was quickly made in the stadium, explaining that any new slogan of this kind would result in the match being stopped.
This would have meant a sporting sanction for PSG.
The Lille supporters, whose team was trailing, then took up these words for a few seconds, hoping to find sporting interest in them.
“The remarks heard in the stands on Saturday, insulting and homophobic, have no place in Paris or in the stadiums,” denounces Pierre Rabadan.
The refusal to be “the generation of supporters who will have seen the club leave its forever lair”
The Sports Assistant also recalls that “we want PSG to stay at the Park.
And the Park must remain for Parisians.”
There is currently a disagreement between the mayor of Paris and PSG, with the club wishing to acquire the stadium in order to rehabilitate it as it sees fit.
However, the municipality is opposed to a sale.
The current tension between the parties is the culmination of several years of discussions which have turned into disagreement, if not public confrontation.
The club chaired by Qatari Nasser Al-Khelaïfi is currently bound by an occupation agreement until 2044.
To complicate the situation, the CUP decided in favor of keeping PSG at the Parc des Princes, where it has played since 1974, two years after the reconstruction of the site.
“PSG is the Parc des Princes and the Parc des Princes is PSG,” he wrote.
“We do not envisage being the generation of supporters who will have seen the club leave its forever lair.
» The Collective says it “wants to fight” for a “real Parc des Princes project with 60,000 places” compared to around 48,000 today.