Football: Marseille receives a total closed door after the incidents during its match against PSG

The sentence fell.

Olympique de Marseille will play their next match against Troyes behind closed doors, says the Professional Football League (LFP).

This sanction follows incidents that occurred during the classic against Paris-Saint-Germain, at the Vélodrome, on the eleventh day of Ligue 1. The PSG players were then targeted on numerous occasions by throwing projectiles while 'they opposed the Marseille club.

Several penalties this season

OM has already been sanctioned twice this season by the LFP disciplinary committee for incidents in the stands, after the Nice-OM match on August 22 and the one in Angers on September 22.

The club had since been under the threat of a withdrawal of one point in the standings in the event of a repeat offense.

The disciplinary committee of the LFP decided to put the OM case under investigation on October 27.

She had also suspended for a firm match Jorge Sampaoli, the OM coach, for three yellow cards in the last ten meetings.

This decision comes after exemplary judicial decisions, in the context of incidents that took place outside the stadium.

Half a dozen supporters arrested Sunday evening after incidents in front of the Vélodrome stadium on the sidelines of the OM-PSG meeting were sentenced to terms of up to two years in prison, all accompanied by stadium bans, had- we learned at the end of October from the prosecution.

17 people taken into police custody

The first period of the match was marked by incidents in front of the Vélodrome stadium, when "hundreds of people tried to enter" the stadium despite the doors closed, requiring the intervention of the police, explained the Prefecture. from police.

Tear gas had been fired and a commissioner was wounded "in the face".

In total, 21 people had been arrested and 17 taken into police custody, prosecuted for degradation, rocket possession and violence or even insults or rebellions against the police.

During the second period, a spectator also entered the field and approached Parisian Lionel Messi before being evacuated by several stewards.