Racism in Football: Metz frontline

When the security manager of a football club is on the front line facing the media, it announced bode well. That's what happens with FC Metz, the last of the League 1 (with the total famélique 12 points and two wins in 26 games), which receives Caen, Saturday night for the 27th day of the championship. Jacky Ancel, responsible for the safety of Saint-Symphorien stadium, spent the week at answering interviews. With the fear "that casts shame on the club because of fifteen idiots": "I do not want to make that an amalgam embarrassing that suggests there are only cons to Metz." The club is in the midst of the media storm following the double racist excesses of some of his supporters (see page 2). Christopher H., the safety officer who had insulted Abdeslam Ouaddou, will appear in correctional March 18. The prefecture has prohibited the stage for three months, and the club filed a complaint against him. "A witness has identified as the author insults at half-time, it was out of the stadium and was handed over to the police," says Jacky Ancel. At the end of the match against Valenciennes, two brothers had caillassé bus opposing supporters and wounded a child. In immediate, they sentenced to nine months in prison, six suspended, and were banned from stadiums for five years. In Lyon, in addition to an extended arm and a "Sieg Heil", a song to Nazi connotation has been resumed: "Through the Lorraine / I lost the iron cross / up to me" Hitler… New Complaints club, one against X and the other against two nazillons identified. They are part of the Faction, "is a collection of some forty people" some of whom are linked to the extreme right movement Jeunesses identity. Friday, an administrative ban of stage three months has been imposed against a member of the faction by the prefect of Lorraine. This small group was founded in 2003 by dissidents groups of supporters more respectable. The evening game, they took seats at the bottom of the West Stand. "It ideologues 15%, 35% and other imbeciles, it must be people who love the fight," calculates Jacky Ancel. Christine Lo Monaco, the owner of a bar near the stadium, suspected members of the faction of having "done everything" in his valdinguer establishment, in August, when supporters of the Paris-SG chased had taken refuge. The Faction is not a group of supporters recognised by the FC Metz. Two of its members were however received by Jacky Ancel in October, after misbehaviour during a match against Strasbourg. "It was not a negotiation, provides Ancel. They asked me and tranquillity guaranteed for the remainder of the season. Moreover, they held their commitment since they are not among those who surrendered to the excesses of Lyon. " To find the "spirit of sport and the civic spirit," the security manager agreed with the idea of a dissolution of this group, advanced by the president of League, Frederic Thiriez. But not that of Bernard Laporte, which was to punish clubs financially: "There is already paying when there is smoke, which is normal. But when you play palpations at the entrance to the stadium, we can not penetrate the mind of the guys. In Metz, there were reactivity on the case Ouaddou. And Lyon, it was unequivocally taken the actions necessary. So if, in addition, you morfle financially… Moi, the guy who plays con, if I forbid him to enter the stadium next time, I have in the bather. The club has no right to do that. Fortunately, because otherwise it would be what? At look? We need a support, a measure prohibiting stage decided by the courts or by the prefecture. These measures exist, the arsenal is there. "Remains to be used. Meanwhile, the players Metz will play Saturday night with a jersey without a sponsor, helmed by the mere mention