It is an irruption in a concert hall, four years to the day after the bombing of the Bataclan. Wednesday, in the evening, dozens of hooded men, hooded on their heads and dressed in black, invaded the AccorHotels Arena (formerly Bercy) and created panic among the thousands of fans of the rapper Marseille Jul, which was sold out .
They fired smoke in the crowd and beat the spectators who wore the logo of OM, club whose singer is a big fan. The deployment of a banner "Marseille Not Welcome" leaves little doubt as to their desire to claim the capital as a hostile terrain for the Marseillais.
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- OM IS US (@NicOMhg) November 14, 2019 What a shame for these Parisian fans came spoil the party for the concert of Jul tonight at Bercy ...
Hitting families, children who wear the jersey of the OM but really in what world we live and force the 300 people who could not return @jul
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The security pointed out
Quickly overwhelmed, security closed, preventing 300 fans of the singer to enter the room even though they had paid their ticket, sometimes a year in advance. One of them, Sophie, testifies to the panic at the microphone in Europe 1 and points to the deployed device: "We were scared, girls were crying, there were children ... With the attacks It's very serious that the AccorHotels Arena only puts two guards at the gates for concerts, when we see that the band has come in so easily, without being checked, we say that anyone can come in while we are in the room. "
Already incidents in Valenciennes in 2015
This is not the first time that Jul's love for the Marseille jersey generates tension. In 2015 already, a "Vive Marseille" dropped at the microphone during a concert in Valenciennes, in the North, had triggered a rush, because of "sequels" of the VA-OM case. One person was seriously injured.
Four years later, despite the brawls that punctuated his concert, the rapper continued his show, thanking the audience in the end as if nothing had happened. He simply posted a picture of himself and his friends in the dressing rooms after the event, without referring to incidents.
No arrest has taken place, difficult to say if the troublemakers are regulars at the Parc des Princes, or simple sympathizers of the PSG came to the punch. In a brief statement posted on Twitter, the Collectif ultras Paris (CUP), the main group of supporters of the club of the capital, denied Thursday to have any responsibility in these sad events.
Press release pic.twitter.com/WUwSB6eT3c
- Collective Ultras Paris (@Co_Ultras_Paris) November 14, 2019On the evening of Wednesday, some members of the CUP went to the Bataclan to pay tribute to the victims of 13-November.