The Nancy prosecutor has requested the opening of an investigation to try to identify the users of smoke during the Nancy-Amiens meeting on Friday, during a Ligue 2 evening also marked by a general fight at the end of the Pau-Dunkirk match.
Asked by AFP, the Nancy prosecutor said they had "requested the opening of an investigation to identify the users of two smoke bombs" during the match between ASNL and Amiens (1-1) at the Marcel stadium -Picot.
The incidents of this meeting “have nothing to do with the various events of the last few days, with lawn invasions, etc. Things quickly returned to order, ”said Bernard Joannin, president of Amiens, who watched the match on television. The smoke jets are "something regrettable, which must be avoided", he added, believing that "we must be much more severe with the troublemakers".
Contacted, the Nancy club, the last of L2 and which fired its coach at the end of the match, did not wish to communicate on these incidents. At the “Nouste Camp”, a fight broke out at the end of Pau-Dunkerque (1-2) a few seconds after the final whistle. This scuffle involving almost all of the players began with a verbal clash between the two coaches - Palois Didier Tholot and his Dunkirk counterpart Romain Revelli.
Joining the verbal exchange by approaching the Dunkirk coach, the Pau side Erwin Koffi received a slap from the northerner substitute Mario Jason Kikonda which degenerated the situation, players and staff jostling and revicting each other under the eyes of the security manager of the Béarn club. However, no spectator entered the field and no projectiles were launched. Two players, Palois Djibril Dianessy and Dunkirk Thomas Vannoye were excluded after the incident. But while awaiting the study of the report of the referee Mathieu Vernice, other sanctions cannot be excluded.
“Didier (Tholot, Editor's note) thought I was messing around.
I didn't mess up anything at all, we explained it to Didier.
No worries.
After that, it got out of hand, I'm sad about that but I can't control it all, ”explained Romain Revelli.
These new incidents come in a tense context for French football, faced with a wave of excesses and violence between supporters.
