RC Lens supporters ready to offer their places to the Sevillians. The group of Lensois supporters, the Red Tigers 1994, reacted on Sunday to the travel ban on Sevilla FC supporters for the Champions League match on Tuesday (8:45 p.m.).
They explain in a press release that they contest this decision of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin: “We cannot accept and we will no longer accept these unfair and liberticidal decrees from a beleaguered executive who just wants to inflate his little cakes. to impress. There were 2,000 of us in Seville, there were 1,600 of us in Eindhoven, there were 3,000 of us in London. Everything went well and the local public authorities had no difficulty in controlling “beasts thirsty for Blood and Gold”, they denounce.
“We will make sure to welcome the Sevilla supporters”
Above all, they announce that they are ready to welcome Sevilla FC fans, “even if it means leaving our seats”: “Faithful to the strong values of welcome, hospitality and conviviality of the mining area and faithful to the principles of the Ultras who make us work to a popular and united football, we will make sure to welcome the supporters of Seville, even if it means leaving our seats to allow them into our stands! “.
Sunday, the Minister of the Interior announced during an interview with online media Raw, that supporters of the Spanish football club Seville will not be able to travel to Lens on Tuesday for a Champions League match. “I am going to prohibit Seville supporters from coming to Lens,” declared the minister, questioned about the travel bans on supporters following the death of a Nantes fan in an altercation on December 2 with Nice supporters, for which a VTC driver was indicted and imprisoned.