how OM are making ready to welcome the (many) Frankfurt supporters

After the intense incidents through the Good-Cologne match on the Allianz Riviera within the Europa League Convention on Thursday, OM will deploy main means to obtain Eintracht Frankfurt and its many followers on Tuesday night in Marseille for the second Champions League day.

The Champions League is again in Marseille. OM and the Vélodrome stadium are making ready to obtain German supporters for the OM-Frankfurt match on Tuesday night (9 p.m.) on behalf of the second day of C1. The incidents on Thursday night earlier than Good-Cologne within the Europa League Convention, a brand new inflow of Germans into the Marseille metropolis and the recent repute of some Olympian followers are elevating fears that new violence will happen.

The police prefecture has subsequently taken sure measures to cope with these dangers. A prefectural decree has simply been signed on this sense, prohibiting the presence of German supporters across the velodrome stadium.

A procession of German supporters banned

In line with our data, Frankfurt supporters might be gathered Place de la Joliette; close to the resorts the place most of them will keep (the place the Greeks had been gathered). The supporters’ buses, and sure different coaches made obtainable to the Germans, will shuttle between this sq. and the Vélodrome stadium. They may subsequently need to go on to their car parking zone to attenuate the chance of clashes with Marseille ultras. Solely German supporters with a ticket could have entry to those buses. A procession of German supporters can also be prohibited by the authorities.

1,200 folks chartered for group and safety

In its decree, the prefecture evokes the concern of seeing round 5,000 German supporters arrive who wouldn’t have a ticket. It’s a custom in lots of German golf equipment and particularly that of Frankfurt: the supporters journey to be current within the metropolis the place their crew evolves. This would be the concern and the foremost problem: find out how to handle the arrival of German supporters who’ve come by their very own means and who wish to collect for instance on the Previous Port…

As for the inside of the stadium, there might be a car parking zone for 3,300 German supporters. The Marseille membership is comparatively assured and thinks it has prevented an enormous buy of tickets on the Web. Some German supporters would have seen, for instance, that financial institution playing cards from overseas and particularly from Germany surprisingly offered… a defect on the time of fee. Possibly a trick to keep away from too many Germans shopping for tickets, like in Barcelona final season.

Within the stadium there might be 1,200 folks chartered for the group and safety on the OM facet (safety, stewards, reception, and so on.) plus legislation enforcement personnel with a bolstered system, round 600 cell forces, together with Hooliganism specialists.