Marseille/PSG, after 11 years of bans, CUP appeals to Council of State | OneFootball

The Collectif Ultras Paris has decided to go on the offensive in the courts. In a statement published on X, the main Paris Saint-Germain supporters’ group announced that it intends to take the matter to the Conseil d’État after eleven years of repeated travel bans to the Vélodrome.

The frustration expressed by the CUP goes far beyond yet another absence from the away section at the Vélodrome. What the group is really challenging is a mechanism that has become almost automatic: year after year, the ban returns, without any lasting solution or genuine dialogue seeming to have been pursued. Yet an exceptional measure cannot, through mere repetition, become a permanent policy for managing supporters.

The legal action now forces the authorities to defend, in precise terms, the necessity and proportionality of their decisions. The risks surrounding OM/PSG obviously cannot be dismissed, but endlessly invoking the sensitive context of Le Classique is not enough to answer the central question: why has no supervised arrangement made it possible for Parisian supporters to return since 2015? Eleven years later, the security argument increasingly looks like the easy way out.

Taking the case to the Conseil d’État does not guarantee that the CUP will prevail, especially given the very short timeframe before the match. It does, however, mark an important break: the bans will no longer simply be endured and denounced, but directly challenged on legal grounds. By repeatedly replacing dialogue with decrees, the authorities have ultimately pushed Parisian supporters toward the courts. This time, it is hard to blame them for finally wanting to break out of this deadlock.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.