While Ligue 1 resumes in a few days, the Ultras of Nantes and Lorient have announced that they will give up hosting the stands as long as the health situation does not allow the release of protective measures that they consider incompatible with the expression of their passion. Unless the prefectural dispensation is currently hypothetical, the stadiums cannot accommodate more than 5,000 people, the supporters must remain masked and seated, with one or two empty seats between them, throughout the duration of the match.
"We hear these measures and we respect them", assured the Loire Brigade of Nantes in a press release on its website. But they "seem to us incompatible with our mode of supporterism".
And the Nantes ultras refuse to count on a possible laxity in the imposition of measures, because they know that it would not last and because it would be lacking in "respect for the nursing staff whom we supported during the confinement" .
The ultras block will remain empty
Same echo in Lorient, where Kop Sud FC Lorient, criticized for non-compliance with measures during a friendly match against Rennes on August 4, tried the experience of strict observance of the rules during a friendly match against Guingamp on Saturday, started with "At the masked stadium ohé ohé" to the tune of the Creole Company.
But singing for hours with the mask "proves particularly uncomfortable" and "the distance also decreases the effervescence effect that we can see in an Ultra group in normal times", explained the Kop in a press release on social networks.
"Aware that barrier gestures and the safety of all are essential and predominant in our passion, we have decided to stop from half-time until the return to suitable sanitary conditions, the activities at the Moustoir stadium as at the 'outside,' the group adds.
As in Nantes, the members of the group will each choose whether or not to go to the match, but the ultras block will remain empty. This is not a "strike or any discontent", continues Kop Sud FC Lorient. “We have tried to support hospital and medico-social staff in the region. It would have been completely absurd not to respect the barrier gestures and consequently the work of these people still mobilized today ”.
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