The Nice supporter author of a kick in the direction of Dimitri Payet was to appear immediately on Wednesday before the Nice judicial court after 48 hours in police custody but he asked for a delay to prepare his defense.
In the meantime, he was placed under judicial supervision with a ban on appearing in a stadium and an obligation to check in once a week at the police station.
"
In Nice and everywhere else,
" said the president of the tribunal, Marion Menot.
To discover
League 1 standings
Ligue 1 fixtures and results
Read alsoLigue 1: Frank McCourt "supports the decision" of OM to leave the field in Nice
The representative of the prosecution, Leopold Mendes, had requested his placement in pre-trial detention, criticizing "
serious acts of rather pathetic hooliganism
".
And he noted the young man's only criminal record, for acts of contempt and rebellion dating back to September 2019 after an altercation with gendarmes at the entrance of a stadium in Montpellier.
He had been fined 450 euros.
"I think I will regret my whole life"
"
I regret bitterly, I feel ashamed, it has been three days since I slept and I think I will regret all my life, to have dirtied the name of my parents, of my little family
", declared the young temporary worker, under the eyes of his parents, faces closed, his mother in tears. "
He will never go to a stadium again, he is traumatized (...) An hour after the match, his name, that of his partner, of his parents were circulating on social networks (...) He became the 'public enemy number one
,' detailed his lawyer, Me Benjamin Taieb.
He also explained that his client had "
at no time thrown bottles
" and that the medical certificate for a two-day ITT produced by Marseille leader Dimitri Payet, a civil party with his club, was unrelated to the alleged facts. .
Supporter of OGC Nice since his childhood, only son with family ties described as stable, this young interim order picker who “does
not have the profile of a delinquent
” according to his lawyer, had been subscribed for 5 years to the Populaire sud, an association of supporters.
OGC Nice - Olympique de Marseille, the overflows
Go to the slideshow (14)
Sunday, the match between Nice and Olympique de Marseille was definitively interrupted in the 78th minute of the match, after the Marseille playmaker, Dimitri Payet, who was about to take a corner, was the target of the supporters ultras from Nice.
Hit in the back by a plastic water bottle, Payet returned the projectile to the audience.
Dozens of Nice supporters then invaded the lawn, causing a general fight between supporters, players of the two teams and members of the management of the two clubs.
Nice was leading 1-0 when these serious incidents erupted.
The disciplinary committee of the LFP was to look into these facts late Wednesday afternoon, with the hearing of representatives of the two clubs who blamed each other.