As a former member of Moroccan ultras, here’s a look from inside
Well from an outside look some members of it make it look bad. And to be honest ultras is a raw representation of society. As a former member in one in Morocco here’s what I can say:
in All Morocco’s ultras there 2 types of members that are dominant and one that is rare:
Willing to do violence uneducated members
Educated members who are not willing to fight (most of the time they are behind the groups ideologies if they follow one)
Rarest member is an educated willing to be violent if needed and most the time they are in leadership positions.
- Almost all of Moroccans Ultras do charitable work through the year and some even more than actual associations. (In my former group we had a cellule that used to be responsible of that)
- Vandalism is never the "goal" or pre planned its things going out of control. And with a lot of 1. Uneducated willing to be violent members it’s hard to control the situation.
- Ultras is healthy for our society the "educated members" prevent violence and riots a lot of the time by talking sense into the uneducated violent members but nobody knows about it because it doesn’t make the news. Without ultras, the uneducated ones will form actual gangs and the educated members will stay out of the image, which is bad for our society.
- Long prison sentences over fights or flares are lazy work from gov, stadium bans will be way more effective (because we already have prison overpopulation and we pay for them prisoners).
Be free to add anything or ask anything if you want to know more.