The Council of State, the highest French administrative legal body, suspended on December 12 the travel ban on supporters from Seville to Lens, as part of the Champions League match between the two teams. The Pas-de-Calais prefecture had announced the day before by decree the travel ban on Sevilla FC supporters due to “ overflows ” And ” clashes » having taken place during previous trips by Andalusian fans. This decision followed announcements made on December 10 by Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin. The Spanish club as well as the French National Supporters Association (ANS) had filed an appeal against this decision. “ The applicant associations are justified in maintaining that the measures prohibiting individual or collective travel concerning people claiming to be supporters of Sevilla FC or behaving as such, enacted by the contested ministerial decree, are disproportionate and involve, consequently, a serious and manifestly disproportionate attack on the fundamental freedoms of these people », declared the Council of State in its order.
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