2023-06-05 16:20:15
He wanted to live his passion as closely as possible, to see these Marseillais evolve for their last match of the season, of which he is an ardent supporter: Kenzo, 8, obviously did not imagine the turn his evening was going to take this Saturday, June 3 at the Ajaccio stadium. A waking nightmare.
The little man and his family were invited thanks to the association “Des coccinelles rouges pour Thomas”, which supports children with pediatric cancers. Kenzo suffers from brain cancer. But that evening, he was delighted to meet players from his favorite club. Proud of the Olympique de Marseille jersey he wears. A red rag for some Corsican supporters who melt on the family before it enters a box. One of the fanatics hits Kenzo’s father, the son is jostled, the jerseys torn off. The family, soon taken in charge by the firefighters, is in shock.
Exemplary measures
Later in the evening, it was supporters, Marseille this time, who attacked a gas station near the stadium. Arrived on the scene, a journalist from France 3 was severely attacked. The day before, the Ligue 2 Bordeaux-Rodez match had been stopped in the 23rd minute of play after a Bordeaux supporter of the Ultramarines 1987 group burst onto the pitch to violently push Rodez striker Lucas Buades celebrating the opening of the score.
Sad pictures. Unjustifiable. Can attacking a sick child cause life-saving electroshock? “We will never accept such excesses and we will take exemplary measures”, promised Sunday June 4 on Twitter the president of the Corsican club, Alain Orsoni. The mayor of Ajaccio, Stéphane Sbraggia, deplored it “acts that bear witness to a worrying loss of values”. The reactions of indignation are legion, but the facts are stubborn.
Their accumulation this weekend is all the more bitter as the whole football season has gone much more peacefully than the year 2021-2022. The Professional Football League (LFP) has so far only deplored one incident in the stadiums compared to 15 last year. “I obviously understand the emotion aroused, but I do not see there a systemic radicalization of the standsadvances a manager of supporters who prefers to remain anonymous. Football is crossed by the same tensions as society, which we also know to be alive. No more no less. »
Fans no longer make excuses
Author of a report for the LFP at the end of 2022, the academic Alain Bauer also evokes a “epiphenomenon” rather than an additional drift. “These are outrageous acts of individuals and no longer of organized groups like last seasonunderlines the professor of criminology. And these residual actions are also denounced by all. This was not the case before, and this testifies to the hard work carried out between the State, the LFP, the clubs and the groups of supporters. This is a real change and it is paradoxically the most important in these recent cases. »
The supporters of Bordeaux, in a press release published on Saturday and returning to the overflow of one of theirs during the match against Bordeaux, have in fact recognized: “Clearly, we failed. » And tried to explain, without looking for excuses, the context of the match against Rodez. “Our stand was in a daze. We have rarely seen such tension in our spans (…). After very difficult seasons and the threat of disappearance of our club last year, these last months in the form of a roller coaster have not spared our emotions. There were too many expectations, too many hopes (…). Passion took precedence over reason. » It is time for the relationship to be reversed. Definitively.
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