“Basta! Enough!”, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra wants to put an end to the chaos in French football

2023-12-04 10:16:23

By Ad.B.

Published 19 minutes ago, Updated 18 minutes ago

Amélie Oudéa-Castéra is worried about the situation in French football after the tragedy in Nantes. SARAH MEYSSONNIER / REUTERS

After the death on Saturday evening of a Nantes supporter ahead of the Nantes-Nice Ligue 1 match, the Minister of Sports sounded the alarm on the climate of violence in French football.

The straw that broke the camel. A 31-year-old Nantes supporter died Saturday evening before Nantes-Nice, victim of a knife attack by a VTC driver, in circumstances that are still unclear. This new news item plunges French football into a situation of chaos.

Enough to arouse lively “worry» by Amélie Oudéa-Castéra. “Basta! That’s enough !exclaimed the Minister of Sports at the microphone of France Inter Monday morning. We cannot continue like this in football.» She indicates having “exchanged at length yesterday (Sunday) with Vincent Labrune, boss of the Football League (LFP)” to try to initiate a “global and extraordinarily determined response“, in collaboration with “the Minister of the Interior, the Minister of Justice, the Federation and all the clubs».

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«A radical situation, radical measures», insists Amélie Oudéa-Castéra. Ban the travel of supporters? “Yes, I think that when the match presents a risk, we must stop the movement of supporters. We need a return to a situation of non-violence. It’s just not possible that we have law enforcement that is so overstretched, property destroyed, buses stoned, people injured, now one dead.».