PSG Fans Challenge Marseille Travel Ban Before Council

The Collectif Ultras Paris has asked France’s highest administrative court, the Conseil d’État, to urgently overturn a ministerial and local ban preventing PSG supporters from traveling to Marseille for Sunday’s Ligue 1 match against Olympique de Marseille. The group says supporters have been barred from the fixture since 2015 and accuses authorities of replacing dialogue with repeated restrictions, citing six successive prefects over 11 years. Officials defend the ban as necessary to prevent violence between the rival fan bases, pointing to clashes surrounding the February 2018 meeting in Paris that injured eight law-enforcement officers. Emergency challenges of this kind rarely succeed, and authorities routinely restrict away supporters at matches deemed high risk.