The Marseilles player had already suffered a similar incident during a Nice Championship match in August.
Le Monde with AFP
French football can not stem the violence in its stages. Sunday, November 21, the match between Olympique Lyonnais (OL) and the Olympique de Marseille (OM), counting for the 14 e day of league 1 was interrupted from the first minutes and n ‘finally never taken over after more than one hour and a half stop.
This is the jet of a bottle of solid water from the northern turn of the groupama stadium of Lyon on the head of the midfielder of the OM, Dimitri Payet which caused this interruption by the referee Rudy Buquet . The two teams then returned to the locker room.
A man was arrested, was he learned from the police, who specified the identified by the video surveillance cameras before being arrested.
This is the sixth time since the beginning of the season that a league 1 meeting is interrupted after inflows of supporters.
Contradictory ads on the recovery of the match
Following this interruption, a crisis cell gathered the authorities, clubs and referees, said the prefect of the Rhône In a tweet , stating that the recovery decision of the match belonged “to the only referee”.
After an hour, the Speaker announced the resumption of the meeting. But if the Lyon team came back to warm up for a few moments, that of Marseille did not come out of the locker room.
The Professional Football League (FPA) condemned “firmly the violent aggression of which Payet suffered”, and said regretting “under these conditions the decision to resume OL-OM by the prefect of the region”.
“Contrary to what had been announced, the referee decided not to take over the party, considering that the safety of the players was not assured,” ended up announces the OL Park Speaker.
An incident similar to Nice in August
Dimitri Payet had already been touched by a bottle in a game in Nice in the early season, in August. The meeting was interrupted at the e minute after the entry of certain fans on the ground and a counter-general fight between fans, players of both teams and members of the two clubs, and She had not taken again.
In questioning these incidents, the president of OL, Jean-Michel Aulas then pronounced in favor of strong sanctions for clubs: “I am one of the people who think that the only possible sanction to curb that state In fact, whether at the level of players, leaders, supporters, it was the points penalty, he said. It’s the only one that’s really scary “.
Sixth Match Interrupted in Ligue 1
This is what the Discipline Commission of the Professional Football League (FPA) had done on 8 September, had sanctioned OGC Nice (which led 1-0 at the time of the facts) of three games In camera and two penalty points including one suspended.
“Despite the firmness of the decisions of the LFP Disciplinary Board since the beginning of the season (withdrawal of points, in camera game, closure of tribune) and the work carried out with government authorities to sanction more effectively Violent individuals in the stages, these new serious incidents recall that the security of the matches is the responsibility of the receiving club and the local authorities, to whom it is last responsive from the resumption or the definitive judgment of the meeting “, Saying on Sunday evening, the League, whose discipline commission will meet in emergency on Monday, November 22.