Doubt prevailed and as in real life, the one where dark stories end in court, it benefited the defendants.
The sulphurous PSG-OM (0-1) of last September 13 therefore leads to nothing or rather an expected verdict.
N eymar and Alvaro escape a sanction, good news for the Brazilian who has already served two suspension games for his red card at the end of the match.
“After examining the case, hearing the players and representatives of the clubs, the Commission notes that it does not have sufficient convincing evidence to allow it to establish the materiality of the facts of discriminatory remarks by the player Alvaro Gonzalez at the against Neymar Jr during the meeting or against Neymar Jr against Alvaro Gonzalez, states the League statement.
Consequently, the Commission decides that there is no reason for sanction.
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The facts are serious - racism, homophobia, multiple insults - and in the absence of formal and incontestable evidence, the justice of football, embodied by the disciplinary commission of the League, could not pronounce.
Neymar and Alvaro can, if they are not injured and their coach decides, play the 6th day of the French Championship which begins this Friday for PSG with the reception of Angers at the Parc des Princes.
Even though the affair sparked a huge controversy, placing the commission headed by Sébastien Deneux under pressure and the eyes of public opinion, the wise men of professional football did not want to create a case law.
The Commission preferred not to create a new problem for itself
It is an open secret: players from France and elsewhere insult each other every week on the football fields, including making sometimes discriminatory comments.
Sanctioning Neymar and Alvaro, even for example, would have led the said commission to look into this kind of cases every week.
She preferred not to create a new problem for herself, even if it means passing for an Areopagus who turns a blind eye to this practice as old as football but nevertheless unbearable.
There were probably no good decisions, she chose the one that gives her the least headache in the future.
It is a safe bet that this decision will arouse the anger or incomprehension of some of the associations engaged in the fight against all abuses of a discriminatory nature.
Sébastien Deneux denies this: “The decisions of the committee are systematically commented on.
This one will be too, explains the president.
We did our job anyway.
I consider it good to have tried to establish things and to have given ourselves all the means.
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PSG-OM and its five red cards will therefore have led to six suspension games for Layvin Kurzawa, four for Angel Di Maria, two for Leandro Paredes and two for Neymar.
On the Marseille side, Jordan Amavi was sentenced to three meetings and Dario Benedetto to one.
The return match, on February 7, will take place in this setting, hoping by then that calm has returned on both sides.