2023-10-30 21:46:00
The Marseille prosecutor, Nicolas Bessone, announced Monday evening the opening of three investigations in total in connection with Sunday’s incidents. The first concerns acts of “voluntary violence in a meeting with premeditation” against Lyon coach Fabio Grosso, punishable by ten years in prison. The Italian technician was seriously injured in the face on Sunday evening when the bus carrying the OL players and staff was stoned on the road to the Vélodrome. According to the Marseille prosecutor, Grosso received a 30-day ITT (total incapacity for work).
At least one coach of Lyon supporters was also targeted, facts for which the Marseille prosecutor’s office opened an investigation for intentional violence in meetings without ITT and damage in meetings, before the game was postponed by the Professional Football League ( LFP) after the meeting of a crisis unit.
“Provocation to racial hatred”
Other incidents also took place in the stands, in the parking lot where the 600 Lyon supporters authorized to come to Marseille were installed. They gave rise to the opening of a third investigation, for “provocation of racial hatred and racial insults”. “Some of the Lyon supporters made Nazi salutes and monkey cries aimed at the Marseille supporters,” detailed prosecutor Nicolas Bessone, specifying that no one was arrested for these facts. READ ALSO The Monday tackle – Violence in the stadiums: France is still abandoned
As of Monday morning, OL had “strongly condemned the unacceptable racist behavior of individuals in the park” and “requested the videos to identify the perpetrators”.
Three weeks after the interruption of the Ligue 1 Montpellier-Clermont match, caused by the throwing of a firecracker on the pitch, the serious incidents at the Vélodrome come at a particularly bad time for French football, which seems unable to find a solution to contain the brutality of a section of his fans.
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