Senegal’s AFCON celebration at Stade de France clouded by legal challenge before Peru friendly | OneFootball

According to L'Équipe, Senegal, who beat Morocco 1-0 after extra time on 18 January to lift AFCON, planned to present the trophy during Saturday's 17:00 friendly with Peru at the Stade de France, but the programme remains unclear after a Moroccan lawyer opposed any ceremony.

The event was meant to honour the diaspora before celebrations in Senegal next week, with organisers scheduling performances by Booba and Youssou Ndour. It would also be a first friendly at the venue not involving France.

Mourad Elajouti, president of the Club des Avocats Marocains, said on X that he sent formal notices on Friday morning to the Stade de France operator and GL Events. He argued that backing a ceremony based on a revoked title would make them directly liable, and reserved the right to seek an emergency sequestration order that would place the trophy under judicial custody pending a decision. He had not responded at the time of publication.

The security operation is set to be near normal, with authorities assessing possible disturbances amid sharpened rhetoric and legal sparring between Senegalese and Moroccan groups on social media. There is vigilance but no confirmed risk or planned action by Morocco supporters, though caution remains over shifts in mood.

Attendance will be capped at around 70,000 inside the sold-out stadium, which holds 80,600. Two supervised supporter marches, Senegalese and Peruvian, are planned from Saint-Denis to their respective sections.

Source: L'Équipe