new complaint against DAZN and LFP for homophobic insults – Libération

2024-10-28 16:11:00

The collectives Rouge direct and Stop Homophobia announced this Monday, October 28, that they will file a complaint against the professional football league and the television broadcaster Ligue 1 after the homophobic chants heard this weekend during Marseille-Paris and Angers-Saint-Etienne .

Repeatedly. A new complaint has been filed against Ligue 1 streaming platform and broadcaster DAZN for “homophobic insults and incitement to hatred” following chants during this weekend’s matches. announced Monday 28 October the lawyer of the Stop Homophobia association. “Stop Homophobia, in collaboration with Collectif Rouge Direct, today presents a complaint before the Paris Prosecutor’s Office and Arcom (regulatory authority of the audiovisual and digital sector, ed.), for homophobic insults and incitement to hatred against DAZN and LFP ”the professional football league, indicates Me Étienne Deshoulières.

The complaint of the two associations was targeted “songs listened to during the Angers-Saint Etienne matches” and OM-PSG “on the weekend of 26-27 October 2024”specifies in a statement. “To the extent that the editorial director of DAZN offers the rebroadcast of football matches on his platform, he is responsible for the insults and public provocations to homophobic hatred or violence due to the rebroadcast of the songs on this platform”the lawyer appreciates.

The matches were not interrupted

Rouge direct, a collective that fights against homophobia in football, shared a video on its social networks in which, in the 69th minute of the “Clasico” between Marseille and Paris, a song taken by some Marseille fans is heard who say: “We have to kill these Parisian fags, we have to kill them, we have to kill them.” He did the same with a video showing a song sung by Saint-Etienne fans during the match between Angers and Saint-Etienne which said: “We are the Stéphanois. Oh Lyons, a bunch of fags. To see our team win. We’re going to fuck you all.” Contrary to what the new Sports Minister, Gil Avérous, had promised, none of these matches were interrupted despite the chants.

Contacted by LiberationRouge Direct announces that a complaint will be systematically filed against DAZN if matches in which homophobic chants were uttered are still available in replay.

The complaint filed this Monday comes a few days after the presentation of a first complaint against the homophobic chants chanted at the end of the PSG-Strasbourg match at the Parc des Princes on 19 October. An investigation has since been opened by the Paris Prosecutor’s Office “two of the ringleaders” they were “identified”. Following the first complaint, DAZN assures “take the utmost care, in compliance with the law, not to transmit passages containing such comments on your platform”.

In his press release, Me Etienne Deshoulières specifies yes “has received precise instructions from Stop Homophobia to file a complaint after every homophobic chant heard in football stadiums”.