Bullshit alert at the Vélodrome stadium. In two videos that went viral published on social networks, Thursday evening, before the match of the OM-Atalanta Europa League semi-final first leg, we see two Bergamo supporters, one imitating a monkey, the second making a Nazi salute towards the Marseille bends.
These images immediately caused the Bouches-du-Rhône police headquarters to react, which indicated that they had referred to the public prosecutor to examine the facts. Since then, one of them has been arrested by the police and taken into police custody.
Local elected officials condemned these acts on Thursday evening. “I strongly condemn the behavior of some Italian supporters during OM-Atalanta. This is intolerable and unworthy. Racism has no place in a stadium or outside,” tweeted Marseille Mayor Benoît Payan. “UEFA and the courts must be implacable in the face of such actions: they are unacceptable and unbearable. Marseille and the South Region will always fight racism, wherever it comes from! “, for his part reacted Renaud Muselier, the president of the regional council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.