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A banner attacks the president of Olympique de Marseille, Jacques-Henry Eyraud, in the city center, Saturday, January 30. (AFP) Asharq Al-Awsat
The French league postponed Marseille s home game against Rennes just three hours before kickoff on Saturday after angry Marseille fans marched to the club s training complex to protest poor results.
The LFP added in a statement that no new date has been set for the match. But seventh-place Marseille s next home game will fall under close scrutiny since it is against bitter rival Paris Saint-Germain next weekend.
A video posted by local newspaper La Provence earlier Saturday showed a tree burning outside the entrance to La Commanderie, amid reports that fans were throwing flares and trying to force their way in.
Angry Marseille fans march to training complex before game
Angry Marseille fans marched to the club s training complex hours before a home game against Rennes on Saturday. A video posted by local newspaper La Provence showed a tree burning outside the entrance to La Commanderie, amid reports that fans were throwing flares and trying to force their way in.
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PARIS Marseille accused its own fans of “barbarism” after angry supporters forced their way into the club s training complex on Saturday afternoon, hours before a French league home game against Rennes.
Three hours before kickoff, the league postponed Marseille s evening match at Stade Velodrome around 13 kilometres (8.5 miles) from the training ground deeming it unsafe to hold the game with tensions so evidently high.
Angry Olympique Marseille supporters attack training ground
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Hundreds of angry Olympique Marseille supporters protested at the club’s Commanderie training centre on Saturday, briefly breaking into the facility.
The fans, who were demonstrating against the club leadership and the team’s poor run of results, assembled in the afternoon in front of the Commanderie and threw smoke bombs and firecrackers.
“300 OM supporters violently attacked police officers present to secure La Commanderie,” the local police at Bouches-du-Rhone tweeted, adding that it immediately sent reinforcements “to put an end to the damage” and saying they had made 25 arrests.
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A man on a scooter looks over at a banner hung by Olympique de Marseille football club fans against the club s president Jacques-Henry Eyraud, that reads in French JHE: Marseille vomits you , a few hours before the Ligue 1 match against Rennes in the southern French city of Marseille on January 30, 2021. - For several weeks, protests have been organized by OM supporters before the home matches. This Saturday, January 30, the deployment of banners was particularly high with dozens of messages appearing all over the city and widely repeated on social networks. Several of these messages directly targeted Eyraud, very unpopular among OM supporters, upset, after during a conference on management he mentioned the danger of having too many Marseillais or OM supporters within the club. OM are currently only sixth in
Marseille match postponed after fans attack training ground Marseille (AFP) – Marseille’s game against Rennes in France’s Ligue 1 on Saturday was postponed after hundreds of angry supporters broke into the club’s training ground in a violent protest.
“Given the incidents this afternoon at the Olympique de Marseille training ground, the game between OM and Rennes is postponed to a later date,” the French league (LFP) said in a statement posted on its website.
The fans, who were demonstrating against the club leadership and the team’s poor recent run of results, assembled in the afternoon in front of Marseille’s La Commanderie training ground, throwing smoke bombs and firecrackers.