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Dimitri Payet files a complaint, Lyon sanctioned with a match behind closed doors – Liberation

The day after the incidents during the OL-OM match, which occurred this Sunday evening, the LFP issued a first sanction. Ministers Gérald Darmanin, Jean-Michel Blanquer and Roxana Maracineanu will meet with French football authorities on Tuesday.

In the aftermath of the violence during the OL-OM match on Sunday evening, which resulted in the suspension and then the postponement of the match, the sanctions began to fall. The disciplinary committee of the Professional Football League (LFP), meeting urgently on Monday, sanctioned Olympique Lyonnais with a total closed door of its stadium as a precaution. Sunday, after only four minutes of play, a bottle, thrown from the stands by an OL supporter, hit Marseille midfielder Dimitri Payet in the face. The player collapsed on the pitch, the match was suspended before being postponed.

“In view of the serious incident that occurred during the meeting […], the disciplinary committee of the LFP decides to put the case under investigation and, as a precaution, declares a total closed session of Groupama Stadium until the pronouncement of the final measure ”, expected on December 8, announced the LFP. This closed-door measure concerns the Lyon-Reims match scheduled for December 1, she said.

For his part, Dimitri Payet lets it be known that he is filing a complaint “Within the framework of the investigation of the prosecutor of Lyon”. According to the Minister for Sports, Roxana Maracineanu, the author of the bottle throwing was arrested, as she welcomed on the airwaves of France Info this Monday morning. In addition, the minister will take part in a meeting, tomorrow Tuesday, with the authorities of French football, namely the LFP and the French Football Federation, under the aegis of the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin. The Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, will also be present.

A season already marred by overflows

For Roxana Maracineanu, power is needed “Penalize a club, because its public or its supporters have acted badly in the stands”. Even if it means completely modifying the disciplinary regulations. And to dare, downright: “It is the survival of French football that is at stake.” In fact, the French championship, Ligue 1 and 2 included, is not at its first overflow. Incidents in the stadiums have multiplied since the start of the season. In the North derby, between Lens and Lille, groups had clashed in the stands. Ditto during Angers-Marseille on September 22 where supporters from Angevin and Marseille fought on the lawn of the Raymond-Kopa stadium.

On August 22, Dimitri Payet had already been the target of projectile throws at the Allianz Riviera in Nice. Annoyed, the French international with 38 selections had responded by returning a bottle to the stands causing violent incidents between players and supporters. The meeting was then stopped and replayed behind closed doors on neutral ground in Troyes on October 27.

A circular to prefects in preparation

In an interview with the team, the midfielder then lambasted too weak sanctions from the disciplinary committee of the Professional Football League (LFP). OGC Nice had been sentenced to three matches behind closed doors and two penalty points, one of which was suspended. Payet had taken him a suspended match. “I am a victim normally. And I was tried as a victim and a culprit. And that, I have not digested it ”, he whispered in everyday sports. This morning, Dimitri Payet was absent from the training planned at the Commanderie, this Monday noon. The Marseille playmaker said to himself “distraught», Sunday evening, at the microphone of RMC.

Several technical meetings have since taken place between the cabinets of the Ministry of the Interior, Justice and Sports, leading to a letter from the government sent, at the end of October, to the LFP, to fight against a form of insecurity. in stadiums. Jean-Michel Blanquer and Roxana Maracineanu then indicated that they wanted the “dissemination of an updated penal policy circularTo the prefects on the subject. The League, via its Disciplinary Commission, has for its part taken numerous sanctions against clubs, ranging from the temporary closure of stands to the withdrawal of points for clubs.

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