Bordeaux (AFP)

The match of Ligue 1 between Bordeaux and Nîmes was interrupted Tuesday evening a half-hour because of an angry movement of ultra Girondins, who finally got to deploy a hostile banner to the direction of the club.

The game was interrupted after eleven minutes of play when about twenty ultras descended on the edge of the lawn. Cries "Longuépée resignation" sounded in the stands of Matmut Altantique, in reference to the president delegate Frédéric Longuépée, targeted for several days by a part of the supporters.

The Bordeaux goalkeeper Benoît Costil came to talk with the ultras present on the edge of the field, before the players return to the locker room.

"For the first time in decades, our word is gagged, our freedom of expression is flouted, we are under the Tribune, we do not give up anything ... Our freedom is not negotiable", tweeted at the same time the Ultramarines , main group of supporters of the Girondins.

Their anger came from the club's ban on the use of a banner in their turn, as tensions between the two camps have increased for several weeks.

The direction of the Girondins finally gave way and the game resumed, with this message in the tribune: "Against King Street and its two puppets: Longuepée and Thiodet".

A hundred Ultramarines had already invited Friday at the club headquarters to demand the resignation of Longuepe and ticket manager Antony Thiodet.

This action, fueled by several months of conflict between the two parties over the policy pursued by the American owners, had come a day after South West revelations evoked "an irremediable break point" between the shareholders of the club US investment King Street (86.4%) and GACP (13.6%).

These tensions behind the scenes should lead to the purchase of shares GACP, focused on investment, by King Street, more interested in the restructuring of the club, the commercial side and financial discipline, which the Ultramarines fear.

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