Marseille Trop Puissant ultras of Olympique de Marsella (France).Incident in San Mames (Bilbao,Spain)

For some time now, the security forces have been following the draws of European competitions closely. For them the concept of hot balls has a different meaning from what Spanish fans may have, more outstanding to avoid the coconuts of the hype in the next round. In your case, experts in public order understand by an easy match that the visiting team is not accompanied by ultras to worry about. From that perspective of security, Olympique de Marseille is one of the hottest balls on the continent as it was revealed again this Thursday in Bilbao.His house is the Vélodrome de Marseille in which different ultra groups coexist united by the OM and for his anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-Jacobin ideology ... "Marseille is not France", some banners are said in their parties. "Welcome to France", their rivals respond to continue with a mutual provocation, which has led to eternal confrontations and bitter rivalries, mainly with the radicals of Paris Saint Germain (PSG). They are located in both curves of the stadium, behind the goals. There live the Marseille Trop Puissant, the Commando Ultra 84, the Fanatics, South Winners ... there are several, each with its banner and its leaders. Most of these groups were born in the eighties and early nineties, the stage of greatest splendor of the ultra movement of football, when violence was rampant without any limitations or sanctions. Those are the years also of better sporting results of Marseille. In 1993 he won the European Cup and right after was accused of rigging a local game so he was stripped of his last league title, he was expelled from European competitions and was sanctioned with a relegation to second division. His ultras are a faithful reflection of the port city of southern France: in the racial question, miscegenation prevails, hosting followers from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and other countries with a colonial past. The flags of Maghrebi nations are common, unlike the French tricolor, which does not exist in the Vélodrome. Unlike the day of the visit of the Spartak in Moscow, this Thursday there were no incidents between hobbies. This is despite the fact that the relationship between the Marseille's ultras and the Athletic Club's is not good. The Herri Norte Taldea are twinned with the radical followers of the Girondins de Bordeaux, called Ultramarines, also from the extreme left. In February 2016, during another visit of the Marseille ultras to Bilbao, there were clashes in which the Gauls had the support of other ultras of Basque local groups confronting Herri Norte, as this newspaper reminds one of those involved in those unrest.                                Incidents at the Vicente Calderón:It was the 2008 season when the kick drummed Atlético de Madrid with Olympique de Marseille on the second day of the group stage of the European Cup. The meeting was held on October 1, 2008 in Vicente Calderón between strong security measures given the large displacement of Gaul followers to the capital of Spain. It had been less than a year since the Zapatero government had passed the Law against Violence in Sport and then there was much talk of the need to pursue the exhibition of fascist symbols in stadiums. As was usual in the previous rojiblanco fief, the visiting supporters were located on top of the North Fund. There they displayed a banner that had a skull with a scarf. Riot officers from the National Police - perhaps ignoring the prevailing ideology among the followers of Marseille - proceeded to try to withdraw it. Perhaps the police confused it with a skull of the Nazi SS Totenkopts, very present in the symbology of groups of the extreme right. The resistance of the French citizens to give up their banner gave rise to a violent confrontation with the police and agents of the private security of the club. There were attacks, punches, injuries, throwing of chairs and at least one detainee: Santos Mirasierra. With his past and his family in Spain, he was one of the leaders of the Commando Ultra 84. All the radical radical groups of the left quickly converted him into a hero. Or a martyr. It was usual to display banners in the stadiums asking for their release. The trajectory of the ultras of Marseille has made them a benchmark for other groups of their same ideology, also in Spain. This is the case of Bukaneros (Rayo Vallecano) or Biris Norte (Seville), among others.In his trial he was represented by Erlantz Ibarrondo, a regular lawyer for members of the Spanish ultra-left. Finally Santos Mirasierra was sentenced by the Provincial Court of Madrid to three and a half years in jail for assaulting one of the police officers. Due to these events, he was barely imprisoned for six months in his country, between July and December 2010. He was released from jail with an electronic device and a ban on access to a stadium until the end of his sentence in 2013. With many more gray hairs and kilos on Mirasierra He walked this Thursday with his ultras comrades through the streets of Bilbao. UEFA, however, made a different assessment of those facts. He considered that the National Police had exceeded and as a measure closed the Vicente Calderón the next two parties. That decision is still remembered now in the heart of the rojiblanca fans, whose radicals whistle in protest when the anthem of the Champions before the matches of this competition.