Biarritz Olympique, a historic French rugby club, ensured its return to the Top 14 on Saturday, beating its neighbor and rival Aviron Bayonnais in the accession / relegation play-off.
A completely crazy match which ended - a very rare thing - with a penalty shootout (6-6, 6 tab to 5).
A Basque derby held at the Aguiléra stadium in Biarritz in an electric atmosphere.
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Problem, the Biarritz club has violated several rules in the health protocol in force in France.
At the end of the match, the prefecture of Pyrénées-Atlantiques immediately "strongly condemned" the numerous offenses and seized the public prosecutor of Bayonne.
The stadium gauge set at 5000 people "was clearly exceeded" (between 8000 and 9000 people), "the national police found the sale of alcohol to take away within" the enclosure and "the pass controls sanitary facilities have not been systematically carried out by the club at the end of entry into
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