A match will include “systematically interrupted” if “an arbitrator or player is physically injured by a projectile,” announced the interdepartmental crisis cell, Thursday, December 16th.
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The message is clear: we do not forget anymore. Since the beginning of the season, the Championship of France – The League 1 – has been confronted with a multiplication of violent acts in the stages. The jet of a bottle of water at the head of the Marseille Play Leader Dimitri Payet, during the match between the Olympique Lyonnais (OL) and the Olympique de Marseille (OM), Sunday, November 21, in Lyon, constituted The incident of too much.
The Government unveiled, Thursday, December 16, a series of “concrete” measures aimed at stepping this inflation of violence. From 1 e January 2022, a match will thus be “systematically and definitely interrupted” if “an arbitrator or a player is physically injured by a projectile from the stands”, has filed the working group together, Thursday, place Beauvau.
Composed of Professional Football League Representatives (FPA), the French Football Federation (FFF), ministries of the interior, sports and justice as well as arbitrators and club presidents, this interministerial cell also decided on the prohibition (as of the 1 July 2002) of the plastic bottles, the obligation for clubs to provide anti-projection devices and a strengthening of the Sanctions against faulty supporters.
Faster, clearer, and without the presidents
In Lyon, the match between OL and OM had shown short – interrupted at e minute – but the different actors of the meeting had discussed nearly two hours before Actor the definitive stop of the meeting. This situation had highlighted the absence of clarity in the decision-making process.
“That the decision take longer than the duration of a match is disturbing,” says Beauvau. As of 1 January, the crisis cell, established in case of violence in a stadium, will therefore have to integrate “a clear distribution of the competences between the arbitrator and the police authority in the interruption of matches “. With a goal: Take “a quick, enlightened and concerted decision” in thirty minutes maximum.
Wishing a “Technical Cenacle” to the revisited operation not to relive the procrastination of November 21, the working group has unanimously decided to exclude club presidents. To avoid “potential situations of conflict of interest”, explain to the Ministry of Sports.
concerned by the result of the party and relations with their supporters, the presidents are in a situation of judges and parties in case of incidents. In the OL-OM match, President Lyonnais, Jean-Michel Aulas, had demanded the resumption of the game, arguing his membership of the Executive Committee of the Federation with the Ruddy Buquet – which itself depends on the FFF. This behavior was sanctioned, Wednesday, by the LFA Discipline Commission of ten suspension games, including five firm games.
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