The Parliament has definitely adopted a proposed law for a long time by the families of victims of the Furiani stage, who had died on May 5, 1992.
Le Monde
Twenty-nine years after the Furiani stage disaster, which had made nineteen deaths on 5 May 1992, the collective of the families of victims gets sucked, despite the reluctance of the league and the Federation of Football . Thursday, October 14, Parliament has definitely adopted a bill that provides no professional football match anymore on May 5 in France.
The Senate voted at hand, without amendments, the text carried by the MP CORSE Michel Castellani (Freedoms and Territories), which had adopted the National Assembly in February 2020. The bill was included in the Agenda of the Senate as part of a parliamentary “niche” reserved for the Ecologist Group, which counts the honorable senator of Haute-Corse, Paul-Toussaint Parigi.
Although the bill is supported by the government, Minister Roxana Maracineanu, traveling to President Emmanuel Macron, was not present, which senators regretted. The Minister in charge of the city Nadia Hai has specified that the text does not contain sanctions, because the Ministry of Sports “works with football bodies” so that the gel of the matches is respected.
Minute of silence
For amateur football, the text provides for the organization of a minute of silence and the port of a black armband on May 5th.
For more than twenty-five years, the collective of the victims and their families claim the prohibition of matches on May 5, facing the reluctance of the League and the Federation, embarrassed in the organization of their competitions.
That day, in 1992, the upper part of a provisional tribune of the Furiani stadium had collapsed before the kickoff of the French Cup semi-final between Bastia and the Olympique de Marseille . Nineteen people have found death and more than 2,300 people were injured.