Supporters of FC Nantes. – Sebastien SALOM-GOMIS / AFP
- While the club’s employees celebrated the maintenance on Sunday, around thirty FC Nantes fans entered the stadium to attack them.
- Nine associations of supporters published a press release on Tuesday noon to deplore “all the events that took place on Sunday evening during the evening organized at La Beaujoire for the maintenance of L1”.
- A call for calm is also launched.
Nine associations of supporters of FC Nantes (including at A La Nantaise and the Loire Brigade) published a press release on Tuesday noon to deplore “all the events that occurred on Sunday evening during the evening organized at La Beaujoire for the maintenance of L1”.
Reminder of the facts: around 10:45 p.m., around thirty hooded people entered the stadium and attacked employees who were celebrating the maintenance. A waitress had been injured. Violence undoubtedly caused by the fact that in the evening, the direction of the FCN had unearthed the coffin of “FC Kita”, buried a week before by Nantes supporters.
“Faced with provocations from the management, violence is not a solution,” the associations insist. In this regard, we express our deep solidarity with the employees of FC Nantes taken hostage by the deplorable spectacle given on Sunday evening at La Beaujoire. “
A call for appeasement
The statement continues: “Despite our peaceful actions for months, guided by a desire for constructive change, the actions of the management of FC Nantes and its entourage have continued to increase the pressure and maintain a deleterious climate. around the club. “
A call for calm is also launched: “We call on all stakeholders in connection with FC Nantes to appeasement, in order to collectively prepare the future of the club. More than ever, it seems essential to us that the groups of supporters work together, in serenity to rebuild the identity of FC Nantes around its values and a real club project. “