Darmanin announces a new meeting in two weeks, and quick decisions
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Emergency situation requires after the match stopped between Lyon and Marseille on Sunday evening following a projectile throw on Dimitri Payet, a meeting was organized on Tuesday Place Beauvau between the government and the authorities of French football. Were present at this meeting, the Ministers of the Interior, Justice and Sports, Gérald Darmanin, Éric Dupond-Moretti and Roxana Maracineanu, as well as the president of the LFP, Vincent Labrune and of the FFF, Noël Le Graët. No strong and symbolic decisions were taken by all the players during this first working meeting, but avenues on the issue of security in French football have been put forward. A new appointment is expected in two weeks with this time, concrete announcements to wait.
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We have agreed to work together on four subjects," says Gérald Darmanin. The first is the issue of the stadium ban. The question of securing the stadiums itself, with video protection cameras and safety nets. The League and the federation are working on it. The question of private security, of course, since we have to further improve the control of access to the stadiums and then finally the most important question as we saw on Sunday, that of knowing who stops a match, how to stop a match, what responsibilities to stop this match between the essential role of the referee and the role of the prefect because there is a question of public order when we evacuate stadiums of 60,000 people.
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The Minister of the Interior unveiled the upcoming agenda with a meeting to come in the next two weeks in order to "
formulate proposals to the Prime Minister and to the governing bodies of our football
". Before concluding: "
Our desire is to work together to change the regulations if the presidents want to discuss it, to allow a rapid decision but also to be able to render a certain number of decisions in a fortnight in order to be able very quickly to evacuate the active minority. which pollutes the beautiful spectacle. Rather than giving in to the emotion that grips us all when a show is ruined, we prefer to work seriously from the perspective of a fortnight.
»Appointment is made.
The emergency situation in French football no longer allows areas of uncertainty.
