{"id":162554,"date":"2025-11-27T13:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/162554\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T13:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:51:07","slug":"newcastle-to-lodge-uefa-complaint-over-unacceptable-treatment-of-fans-at-marseille-game-newcastle-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/162554\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle to lodge Uefa complaint over \u2018unacceptable treatment\u2019 of fans at Marseille game | Newcastle United"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newcastle are to complain over the \u201cunacceptable treatment\u201d their fans endured after Tuesday\u2019s 2-1 defeat at Marseille<\/a> in the Champions League. The Premier League club accused French police of using pepper spray, batons and shields to subdue supporters in the wake of Tuesday night\u2019s loss at Stade V\u00e9lodrome.<\/p>\n

A club statement said: \u201cWe will be formally raising our concerns with Uefa, Olympique de Marseille and French police in relation to the unacceptable treatment of our supporters by police at Stade V\u00e9lodrome following Tuesday\u2019s UEFA Champions League<\/a> fixture.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Newcastle, travelling fans were kept inside the stadium for an hour in a planned move for their safety, with groups of 500 then escorted to the metro to go to the supporters\u2019 meeting point. However, that is when plans apparently went awry, with the post-match operation witnessed at close quarters by Newcastle\u2019s stewards and senior staff.<\/p>\n

Newcastle\u2019s statement said: \u201cOnce the first group of supporters was released, the police began using unnecessary and disproportionate force to stop the remainder of our fans from moving any further. This was actioned through a combination of pepper spray, batons and shields, with numerous supporters being indiscriminately assaulted by the police.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany supporters were visibly distressed, particularly in the upper concourse area of the away sector, where crushing became apparent. Our staff immediately addressed the matter with the police, however this had limited impact on their excessive tactics.<\/p>\n

\u201cFans leaving the stadium rightly shared their distress, frustration and anger with our staff, and we have subsequently received deeply concerning witness reports from supporters who were in attendance. Supporter safety and welfare should always be of paramount importance, and we strongly condemn the treatment of our supporters by the police during this incident.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Newcastle say they will contact the relevant bodies for an investigation into what happened \u201cto ensure lessons are learned and this behaviour is not repeated\u201d and have called on supporters to share their view of the experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle are to complain over the \u201cunacceptable treatment\u201d their fans endured after Tuesday\u2019s 2-1 defeat at Marseille in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-162554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}