In October 2018, the last match between the two teams played on French soil, four people were injured by a knife in a fight involving 200 fans. Harsh reaction of the Biancoceleste company after the note from the Ministry of the Interior in Paris: “Unacceptable offenses to our supporters”
Genoa – To Lazio supporters the trip to Marseille for Thursday’s match on the fourth day of the Europa League was prohibited “due to the recurrent violent behavior of certain fans near the stadium and in the centers of the cities that host the matches”, as well as “the repeated intonation of fascist songs and the performance of Roman greetings ». This is the motivation contained in an ordinance of the French Ministry of the Interior which prohibits “Lazio fans or anyone who presents themselves as such” not only access to the Velodrome stadium in Marseille and circulation or parking in the central arrondissements of the city, as had been indicated in recent days, but even “entry into France from road, rail, port and airport border posts” from Wednesday 3 to Thursday 4 November.
The order, signed by the Minister of the Interior, Ge’rald Darmanin, also recalled the recent clashes in Marseille between OM and Galatasaray fans in which 32 policemen were injured. The Velodrome guest sector has been closed for the match against Lazio. Already for the first leg match at the Olimpico, the transfer to the Marseille fans was forbidden, in light of the clashes between the two supporters on the occasion of the last match dating back to 25 October 2018, when in the Provencal city there was a fight between 200 fans with four who sustained stab wounds.
Harsh reaction from Lazio after the note from the Ministry of the Interior in Paris: “Unacceptable offenses to fans”
«The decision of the French Ministry of the Interior to ban Lazio fans from traveling to the city of Marseille as a precaution is not surprising and is in line with what has already been decided by the Italian authorities in the first leg. What is surprising are the methods of application of the ordinance on a national scale and its unjustifiable reasons ». Lazio takes a stand against what it considers to be an “unacceptable free offense to all the biancoceleste supporters and to the club itself, which has always fought violent behavior and any kind of discrimination, inside and outside the stadiums with concrete actions”, reads note from the club following the order in which the transalpine Ministry of the Interior decided to ban the travel of Lazio fans for the Europa League match scheduled for Thursday in Marseille. As for the first leg to the Olimpico, in which the transfer to French fans was prohibited by the Italian authorities, so for the return match France applies the same measure. On the other hand, the content of the reasons is surprising, in which between one passage and another reference is made to the “violent behavior of certain groups of Lazio fans” and to the “habit” of some Biancocelesti supporters of “singing fascist and make the Nazi salute ». Waiting for “a clarification by the French institutions and a clear stance of our diplomacy towards expressions of indignation that should indignant all Italians”, the Lazio Sports Society emphasizes in the note that “it has always put in place initiatives aimed at promoting the principles values of sport and the overcoming of all barriers of a social, cultural, economic, ethnic and religious nature as has been widely recognized even at the highest institutional levels “, recalling how, however,” violence in stadiums is unfortunately a widespread and worrying phenomenon, starting from what happened recently at the Velodrome in Marseille ».
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