Europe 1 with AFP 3 p.m., August 28, 2022
Three buses of Marseille supporters, who were banned from traveling to Nice on Sunday for a match under high security on the 4th day of Ligue 1, were intercepted in the morning by the gendarmerie on the road.
They were arrested at Auriol, about thirty kilometers from Marseille, and turned around calmly at the end of the morning.
Three buses of Marseille supporters, who were banned from traveling to Nice on Sunday for a match under high security on the 4th day of Ligue 1, were intercepted in the morning by the gendarmerie on the road.
They were arrested at Auriol, about thirty kilometers from Marseille, and turned around calmly at the end of the morning, explained the prefecture without further details.
A high risk game
The movement "individual or collective, by any means, of any person claiming to be a supporter of the Olympique de Marseille club or behaving as such is prohibited between the municipalities of Bouches-du-Rhône and the municipality of Nice. , Sunday August 28 from midnight to midnight", according to a ministerial decree published Friday in anticipation of the meeting scheduled for Sunday at 3:00 p.m.
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