Men dressed in black with balaclavas in the green and yellow colors of FC Nantes try to enter the field. We then play added time for this Nantes-Le Havre. It requires the intervention of stewards who block the supporters with barriers. A surreal scene this Sunday at the Beaujoire stadium, followed by a match interruption for half an hour. This match on the 12th day of Ligue 1 ended in confusion with a defeat for Nantes (0-2), 16th in the championship and play-offs.
The images were obviously not to the taste of the Ministry of the Interior. According to information from Ouest-France, which we are able to confirm, for Minister Bruno Retailleau and his team the dissolution of the Loire Brigade, the main group of supporters of FC Nantes, certain members of which are at the origin of these incidents end of match, is “under study”.
A decision that Brice Hortefeux also took in 2010 by dissolving seven groups of supporters, including five in Paris. For the Ministry of the Interior, it does not matter that the Brigade Loire is not constituted as an association. This provision thus avoids being taken to court, but not dissolution since the first gendarme of France considers that the Loire Brigade is still recognized as “a de facto group”.
After this incident, a response from supporters to the catastrophic sporting situation of the club (winner of only one of its 16 matches in 2024 at Beaujoire), FC Nantes is playing big. Summoned on Wednesday by the disciplinary committee, he risks a partial or total closed session.
