Fifteen minutes of play and that's it at the Parc des Princes.
The match ended on Tuesday evening between PSG and Istanbul Basaksehir after several minutes of debate.
The fourth referee of the match, the Romanian Sébastien Coltescu, was accused by Pierre Achille Webo, a former Cameroonian international and a member of the Istanbul staff, of having uttered a racist term.
The scene would have taken place before the quarter of an hour of play. The match was then interrupted before the 23rd minute.
Pierre Achille Webo (58 caps with Cameroon) was excluded by the central referee for protests.
But the fourth referee, when calling the center referee, allegedly used the term “nigger” (or “nigger”) about the Turkish club's assistant coach.
An insulting term that caused the meeting to stop.
Both teams got involved, including Parisian stars Kylian Mbappé and Neymar.
The Brazilian had, in mid-September, himself accused an opponent of racism.
In Romanian, “black” is “negru”
Demba Ba, striker from Basaksehir, replacing this Tuesday evening, also weighed in favor of the end of the match.
The Senegalese explained in particular that the fourth referee could have used the terms of "black guy" ("black man") and not "nigger" (or "nigger").
Leonardo, sports director of PSG, also came down on the lawn to try to understand the situation.
The Turkish coach of Basaksehir, Okan Buruk, would have supported the words of his assistant by explaining that Webo had been excluded "because of his color of skin".
In Romanian, the language of evening referees, the black term is called "negru".
Players from both teams joined the locker room after 25 minutes on the pitch.