French authorities have now extended a measure banning fans from visiting teams from attending football matches.
The French football league said all professional matches this weekend all across the country will be played without travelling fans in accordance with a decision by Interior Ministry.
It said the measure will be implemented during Champions League, Europa League, French league and French Cup matches until mid-December ‘because of a lack of availability of security forces under the emergency state’ as well as due to a major climate change meeting in Paris from November 30th to December 11th.
But the lack of fans is not likely to upset the teams if they take the Belgium’s Gent squad as an example.
Even tough there were no Gent supporters in the stadium on Tuesday night, it did not stop the players celebrating the victory.
In a hilarious video that emerged on social media on Wednesday, the Gent players can be seen making their way over to the section of the stadium where their fans would have been sat and celebrated in front the empty stand.
Security checks including metal detectors, bag searches and body pat-downs have been reinforced at stadiums after ISIS affiliated terrorists targeted France’s national stadium as well as bars, restaurants and a concert hall in Paris, killing 130 people and wounding hundreds on Friday 13th.
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