TFC-OM: “They splashed paint on our shirts!” A week later, Toulouse OM supporters denounce the violence

“As soon as they saw a Toulouse player wearing the Marseille shirt, they attacked them. They asked them to take off their shirt and put it on their back! It was amazing, I had never seen that! Some of these supporters from Toulouse were equipped with a spray to spray the OM jerseys and repaint them a different color.

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Surreal scenes on Saturday evening August 31 near the Stadium pitch on Ramier Island around 7pm before the match between TFC and OM. Witnessing the brawl, Farid, who sells sandwiches outside the gates of the venue, intervened between a group of TFC supporters “dressed in black, with face scarves”, whom he identified as members of the Indians, and young men from Toulouse, OM fans but dressed in the tunic of the Canebière club. And this preference for the Marseille club was not to the taste of a few ultras who saw red.

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A father and his daughter attacked

“There were fights,” Farid adds, “and the police arrived to calm everyone down.” The security agents of the stadium also intervened to restore calm. “Some young people were almost lynched, it was very violent.” When contacted, members of the Indians deny taking part in the violence. “We saw a father and his daughter attacked by independent supporters, but in no way were they members of the Indians,” said one of them, “We are not here to attack children.”

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For this meeting classified as risky by the prefecture, arrangements had been made. In particular, Marseille supporters have been banned from wearing the OM shirt in an area that includes “Toulouse city centre, Île du Ramier and the Matabiau district from Saturday 31 August at 8am until Sunday 1.^er September at 6 am,” according to the authorities.

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The thousands of OM supporters, who came from Marseille, were policed ​​as per protocol. But in Toulouse, as in all of Occitania, numerous groups of “Ciel et Blanc” fans flock to the Stadium to see and support their favorite club. A trend that makes TFC fans cringe. Some, the most radical, have just relaunched the swimsuit war.