While a Nantes supporter died on Saturday, on the sidelines of the Nantes-Nice match, Daniel Riolo is campaigning for a ban on fan travel.
After several notable incidents since the start of the season, culminating in the stoning of supporters’ buses and even players, the 14e Ligue 1 day was marked by drama on Saturday evening. An FC Nantes fan has indeed died, visibly stabbed in the back by a VTC driver who was transporting Nice supporters, attacked by a horde of Nantes ultras.
For Daniel Riolo, this tragedy should encourage the public authorities to ban any movement of supporters. “After the incidents in Marseille, I asked if it took a death to finally make the right decision? The dead man is there. What are we doing? We continue? In truth, we shouldn’t be talking about Ligue 1 matches this weekend. We have a dead man on our hands”he confided at the microphone of After, on RMC.
And the RMC polemicist points the finger at the LFP and its president, Vincent Labrune. “Have we heard Vincent Labrune (the president of the LFP)? A press release for a dead person? We feel like we don’t care at all. It saddens me »he continued, adding: “I’ve been saying this for quite some time and I hope we’ll finally open our eyes once and for all. It’s sad to say it but we must stop the travel of supporters. It’s over, stop, we’ll bury the idea. We are incapable of managing that in France because we have a public of savages and a public authority which has other things to do than manage savages.
