The violence in amateur football does not seem to be drying up. The match between Sunday, February 2 the reserve of the club of Sermaises to Boynes, in 4th division of District of Loiret, made a new victim of violence. At the end of this tense encounter, Yann Cnaepelnick, the referee, was struck severely in the face. The disciplinary committee decided to strike hard at the end of last week, excluding the attacker from the field for a period of twenty-five years, while two of his teammates were suspended for two and three years for uttering threats.
The club is disqualified from the competition. Bernard Bourillon, the president of the District in Loiret, thus hopes "that the club presidents will react". In a letter addressed to the Center League - Loire Valley, Bertrand Léturgie, the president of the Sermaises club, presented his resignation.
Founder of the French Amateur Football Association, Frédéric Thomas salutes "the firmness of the response for this inexcusable gesture". He would like professional football bodies to take the root problem and think of new sanctions such as the obligation to referee youth matches for those who show the first signs of violence, or the introduction of a white card , a temporary exclusion to relieve tensions.