After the pathetic incidents during OL-OM on Sunday evening, room for reactions this Monday morning and in this area, the politicians - who also have a role to play on this subject of violence in the stadiums - are not the last to deliver their opinions.
A posture that contrasts with that of Vincent Labrune, president of the Professional Football League, completely silent in recent hours despite a tension pushed to its paroxysm with regard to the repetition of acts of violence in the premises of Ligue 1 since the start of the season .
With a new deplorable episode on Sunday evening during the famous Olympico, finally stopped after two hours of palaver following a projectile throw at Dimitri Payet.
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Asked this Monday morning on France Info following these events, the Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu deemed "
intolerable
" the bottle throwing targeting the Marseille player, calling on the clubs to "
immediate and radical
"
awareness of
the security. The latter also put pressure on the LFP. "
The League will certainly have to clarify its regulations so that such an act of aggression on a player in the game leads to an automatic stoppage of the match,
" she said while a disciplinary committee is scheduled for Monday and four people , including the offender, were taken into police custody. As after the incidents at the start of the season, the minister said she was "in
favor of individual sanctions
", And said"
stay (r) on this line
", calling for this act to be"
punished
".
I find that there is a certain laxity but I am not targeting anyone.
It is the reflection of society.
We touch an elected official, a police officer, we damage the Republic.
There, we are damaging football, sport, so we are damaging France.
Karl Olive, mayor of Poissy
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Other politicians have expressed their indignation the day after this sequence which deteriorates the image of Ligue 1. A championship which, for the first time in its history, has in its ranks three of the best players in the world of football with Kylian Mbappé, Lionel Messi and Neymar. "
These are acts which shame sport and the values which are those of sport,
" lamented on France 2 the deputy president of the LREM group to the National Assembly Aurore Bergé, claiming that "
the clubs themselves make their arrangements
”With“
extremely firm measures
”. For Xavier Bertrand, candidate for the LR nomination for the presidential election, questioned on France Inter, “
there must be sanctions that are taken.
"Because"
one cannot have the drift in France of this formidable sport, so popular, as one could know in England at one time
".
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"
It's lousy on the part of the supporters to do that
" and "
we cannot accept such violence
", denounced on Cnews another candidate for the LR nomination, Valérie Pécresse.
To "
restore calm and serenity in the stadiums
", she recalled that Nicolas Sarkozy had established "
for all violent supporters the stadium ban
".
Asked about RMC, Karl Olive, mayor of Poissy and former sports boss of Canal +, even appeals to the President of the Republic: "
We need a big punch on the table which goes far beyond the borders of the League, of the French Federation, which must come from the top of the state.
We need radical decisions, identity checks.
We are not going to sit idly by and, as with society, take radical decisions, we are in the game or outside.
I find that there is a certain laxity, but I am not targeting anyone.
It is the reflection of society.
We touch an elected official, a police officer, we damage the Republic.
There, we are damaging football, sport, so we are damaging France.
"
(With AFP)