Four Angers supporters aged 22 to 35 were indicted on Wednesday and will appear on March 30, following excesses during the SCO-Marseille match (0-0) on September 22 in Ligue 1, we were told. learned from the Angers prosecutor’s office. Placed in police custody on Wednesday morning, the four supporters are indicted for unauthorized entry into a sports competition with the intention of disturbing it, “a specific breach of the sports code”. Three of them are also indicted for violence committed in a meeting in a sports arena, said the public prosecutor of Angers, Eric Bouillard. They would have committed this violence “either on stewards or on opponents of the camp opposite OM”, detailed the magistrate.
The four supporters under judicial control
Pending their appearance before the criminal court, all four were placed under judicial supervision. They are also banned from attending stadiums where Ligue 1 or Ligue 2 matches are taking place. A fifth man, “less involved”, who was summoned on Wednesday morning and did not show up, was finally heard. He is also indicted for having entered the sports arena. He is also summoned on March 30 but has not been placed under judicial supervision by then, said Eric Bouillard.
Marseille supporters “will be heard later, but very quickly,” said the prosecutor. On September 22, after firecrackers were thrown, several dozen Marseille supporters left the visitors’ area to confront the ultras from Angevin in the neighboring stand before the stewards restored order. No one had been injured.
At the beginning of October, the Disciplinary Committee of the Professional Football League had cracked down after these incidents, Marseille notably receiving a suspended one-point withdrawal. Angers had been sanctioned with two matches behind closed doors for its Coubertin stand, one of which was suspended, and a fine of 20,000 euros.