Since the beginning of the season, many restrictions on the movement of supporters have been taken by prefectural decrees. A situation denounced on Europe 1 by Noël Le Graët, the president of the French Football Federation.

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For several seasons, bans on the movement of fans have crystallized tensions. The resumption of Ligue 1 has not escaped the rule, with many prefectural orders limiting the arrival of fans supporting the team playing outside, including meetings Reims-Strasbourg or Nantes-Marseille last weekend . Noël Le Graët, the president of the French Football Federation (FFF), criticized these travel bans on Friday at the microphone of Europe 1.

"It's getting difficult, it's bothering me." The travel bans are stupid, but it comes from fights of twenty or thirty supporters per club.We ourselves talk a lot with the League (LFP) and clubs. is intolerable the closures of stands, "said the boss of the FFF, while supporters strongly contest these prohibitions.

"It will be necessary to rediscuss with the Ministry of the Interior"

Noël Le Graët also asked to address this sensitive subject with the Ministry of the Interior, so that "the fans can move". "We will have to discuss it again at the start of the school year with the Ministry of the Interior There is no reason for us not to widen the debates, I would like fans to be able to move around they have a place everywhere, we should be able to play football with reasonable people, "hoped the president of the FFF.

Prefectural orders restricting the movement of supporters were also taken in the European Cup. The prefecture of Bas-Rhin has issued a decree prohibiting "any person claiming the support of Eintracht Frankfurt or behaving as such (to) circulate or park near the stadium of Meinau", before the dam Europa League won Thursday night by Strasbourg (1-0).