The riots in the stadiums turn the stands into a magnifying mirror of repressed tensions.

The Moroccan writer Idriss Al-Qari believes that football begins with a simple promise: a game that unites people. However, this promise does not always withstand the pressure of collective emotion, as the stands can, in a moment of emotional intensity, turn into explosive energy that reveals the fragility of humans when they are drawn into the crowd.

Al-Qari stated, in an article he dedicated to "Hespress" about violence in stadiums, that what appears in scenes of riots is not merely transient behavior, but reveals a complex social and psychological structure, where the individual fades within a boundary-less group that operates under a logic different from that of individuals. He pointed out that stadium violence cannot be understood as an isolated incident, but rather as a complex social, psychological, and material phenomenon that affects security and public order, at a time when specialized research agrees that what happens within the stands reflects deeper imbalances in the education and media systems, in family structures, and is also linked to the weakening of the roles of social frameworks such as parties, unions, and associations, within a context where economic, social, and cultural factors intertwine.

The Moroccan critic noted that the football stadium, in this context, becomes a magnifying mirror for the repressed tensions experienced by society, where unemployment, vulnerability, feelings of exclusion, and loss of perspective find their way into the stands. He emphasized that the fan does not come merely to watch a match, but carries with him an emotional, social, and political charge that he seeks to release, which makes understanding the riots contingent upon understanding the conditions in which they arise.

In his reading of crowd dynamics, Al-Qari considered that collective behavior does not reflect the sum of individual behaviors, but rather produces a new pattern of interaction governed by self-organizing mechanisms, a pattern that often leads to sudden explosions, where the individual loses his moral and civic awareness in favor of what resembles a "collective mind" of a herd-like nature. He warned that violence within the crowd spreads quickly, just as nerve signals travel within the body, in line with what Gustave Le Bon asserted when he stated that crowds are more emotional than rational, which explains the transformation of shouting into aggressive behavior in a short time.