2023-10-30 09:52:43
The serious attacks by fans of the Marseilles against the buses Lyon that caused several injuries and led to the suspension of the match between the two French clubs this Sunday, have already led to nine arrests and investigations continue to arrest all those responsible.
This is the message of French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmaninwho in an interview with the BFMTV channel defended himself for not having prepared the security device well for that risky match.
Darmanin emphasized that 500 police and gendarmes had been mobilized, that there were nine injuries among the officers and that what happened “is the responsibility of the fans and the clubs.”
He acknowledged that not all the perpetrators have been captured, but he was convinced that the video surveillance images will make it possible to identify them and “detain other people.”
“I hope that there will be administrative and sports administrations” and that the Justice Department will hand down “significant prison sentences.”
Rain of objects
The incidents occurred before the match when several buses, and in particular the one that took Lyon to the Velodrome stadium in Marseille, received a shower of beer cans and other objects that burst some windows and injured the visiting coach, the Italian, in particular. Fabio Grosso.
“Disgust and shame” on the front page of the newspaper L’Équipe on Monday October 30#OMOL pic.twitter.com/zhIBoMFbZ4
— THE TEAM (@lequipe) October 29, 2023
The image of Grosso’s bloody face, which is the cover chosen this Monday by L’Équipehas become the symbol of this new episode of violence in french football. “Disgust and shame,” headlines the newspaper.
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The Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa Castéraalso defended herself this Monday against failures in the security device and stated that the match “had been well prepared” and when asked in another interview on the France 2 channel about whether there will be sanctions for the clubs, she responded that “if there are responsibilities , of course”.
In his opinion, “all the authors of these inadmissible actions must be strongly sanctioned”, there must be “a global response” and “the clubs cannot be disinterested”.
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