Ecuadorian international football player Mario Pineida was shot and killed on Wednesday in the port city of Guayaquil, his club, Barcelona SC, announced. Pineida, a 33-year-old defender, played with the Ecuador team in the qualifiers for the Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022 World Cups. He was Ecuador champion in 2016 with Barcelona, and also played … Read more
Vitinha’s family is “in mourning”. This Wednesday, the former Olympique de Marseille striker announced that the children who died in the tragic explosion of a building in Trévoux (Ain) were his nephews. “My cousin Bruno lost his children in a tragedy in France,” he wrote, sharing a pot to “bring a little comfort” to his … Read more
He was arrested in 2020 for participating in anti-government protests. Sentenced to death for belonging to an illegal organization, Iranian boxer Mohammad Javad Vafaei-Sani risks an “imminent” execution after the rejection of his request for a new trial, NGOs and the opposition in exile warned on Wednesday. The World Boxing Council (WBC), one of the … Read more
After four years of investigation, the Versailles public prosecutor’s office has just submitted its submissions in the so-called “Hamraoui-Diallo” affair. The first, Kheira Hamraoui, 35, ex-footballer for the PSG women’s team, was attacked with an iron bar one evening in November 2021 in Chatou (Yvelines) while she was returning from a dinner organized by her … Read more
The 54-year-old man, who drove into Liverpool football club supporters in May “in a fit of rage” was sentenced to 21 years and 6 months in prison by the British courts, we learned on Tuesday. Paul Doyle “used his vehicle as a weapon” and “provoked horror in those who thought they were participating in a … Read more
The sanction is known. This Monday, in Bastia, a man was sentenced to six months suspended prison sentence and a five-year stadium ban for throwing a smoke bomb which hit a player and interrupted the match between Bastia and Red Star on December 5 at Furiani. He must also pay a symbolic euro to the … Read more
She appeals to the Algerian authorities. The mother of French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes, sentenced on appeal in early December in Algeria to seven years in prison, sent a request for pardon to Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, according to a letter dated December 10 consulted this Monday by AFP. “I respectfully ask you to consider … Read more
He will soon know his fate. The motorist who injured more than 100 people by driving into the crowd in May during Liverpool FC football club’s English Premier League victory parade will be sentenced following a two-day hearing on Monday and Tuesday. Paul Doyle, 54, was arrested at the scene and taken into custody. Judge … Read more
A man suspected of having thrown a smoke bomb at an Ile-de-France player during the football match between SC Bastia and Red Star, on December 5 during the 16th day of Ligue 2, was placed in pre-trial detention on Thursday, AFP learned on Friday from the Bastia prosecutor’s office. Aged around thirty, he will be … Read more
The International Tennis Integrity Agency (Itia) announced Thursday that it had suspended a French player, former world number 488, for a period of twenty years, after an investigation describing him as a “central figure” in a criminal match-fixing network. This particularly heavy sanction targets Quentin Folliot (26 years old), identified “as a central figure in … Read more