Why Nantes supporters did not attend the match in Bayonne

Still work well done on the part of the State services concerning the supervision of the movements of supporters this weekend in the Coupe de France. If the supporters of Nancy were at least informed 48 hours before their trip to Grande-Synthe that finally, no, the agreement negotiated 15 days upstream no longer held and that it would be necessary to stay in Lorraine, their 150 Nantes colleagues have refrained from '' slaughter a group of baby pandas on their arrival in Bayonne on Saturday morning after having bumped into the bus for 7 hours. Everything was set: a stroll through the old town to admire the ramparts of Vauban and lunch in a brasserie ten minutes from the Jean Dauger stadium to arrive on a full stomach in the visitor park just before 1 p.m.

[Saturday FC press release]

In continuation of this irresponsible and repressive weekend proposed by the authorities. pic.twitter.com/qTb84kKLRE

Except no. The following is offered to you by Romain Gaudin, spokesperson for the Loire Brigade, obviously from the Bayonnais getaway:

“We had anticipated by working with the club's referent supporter, who is in contact with the authorities on site, he had no negative feedback. We had planned a restaurant that we had reserved, and we wanted to wander around the center a bit before the match. But as soon as we arrived, we were escorted to the entrance of Bayonne to the stadium by a company of mobile gendarmes. And there the commissioner announced to us that we would be searched one by one and parked in the stadium until kick-off, when there was no prefectural order prohibiting or even regulating displacement.

#CDF #BL
To sum up, we've been holding everything for 3 weeks, a reserved place, but we have guys who manage their files 48 hours before & panic!
City center prohibited: We don't give in ps, turn around!
If that had not been enough, we had (hold on vs) an escort from BAYONNE to La Beaujoire.

14h bus for nothing

Nada. Besides, the few FCN fans who had the courage to take their personal car were not worried and were able to quietly enjoy the Southwest sun and the controlled skills of their team. Others ? Back to the sender, direction Brittany. Note the royal escort: seven CRS vans just for them. Who blocked the exits of the highway areas sometimes that some decide to run away from the Courtepaille of Labouheyre-Est. "For a moment, we couldn't stop holding piss, so we stopped along the emergency strip, then we ended up on foot," smiles (yellow) Romain. The gendarmes who had relayed the CRS were nice, they were as annoyed as we are. ”

#FCNantes while #Coulibaly opens the brand, would it be the extra '#Nantais / #Brigade #Loire? 2nd bus blocked on the A63 at the exit of #Bayonne under high surveillance #ABFCN pic.twitter.com/fp0RXB1VMt

Does he regret not having waited a few hours in the stadium while waiting for kick-off rather than losing a day on the bus and 60 euros dry (the price of the trip)? Not at all.

“We could have stayed at the stadium in the meantime, but it had already happened to us a few years ago in Valenciennes, we had to wait 7 hours in the stands and we swore that it would be the last time. After 10 minutes, we told them we were leaving. Already to show them that we are not dogs. If they had managed this correctly and they hadn't been interested in our trip 24 hours before, we would have organized ourselves differently. ”

Result: without the Loire Brigade, the Nantes parking lot is almost empty. How sad. #ABFCN #CoupeDeFrance pic.twitter.com/CsfC7p4LEe

Suffice to say that the benefits of the Castaner circular, whose objective was to limit travel bans for supporters of the visiting team, are long overdue, to put it mildly. For once, the Nantes club was even officially moved by the situation, "strongly regretting the absence of some of its supporters for this match when no decree had been taken upstream".

Despite the ban, we let the Stéphanois supporters return. Long live sports on air 2 😎 @ASSEofficiel pic.twitter.com/R4hpfOvpV3

A small notable exception in Furiani, where the Bastia-Borgo club let the Stéphanois supporters in by rolling out the red carpet. A bravado to read between the lines. Fans of the Greens have been sanctioned by the League after the fireworks of July 14 against PSG, and we know the relations of friendship between Corsican football and the LFP.

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