The images are lamentable, extremely violent but they have become usual in the landscape of French football more than ever sick, one knee on the ground facing the gangrene of these wild supporters who regularly come to fight in the stadiums.
The 32nd-final match between Paris FC and Olympique Lyonnais was interrupted by the referee on Friday night at the Charléty Stadium (when the score was 1-1) after violent clashes in the stands, the umpteenth episode of a 2021-2022 season marked by chaos.
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The announcer of the Parisian stadium of Charléty, accompanied by the president of Paris FC, Pierre Ferracci, announced around 22:50, "that
in agreement with the authorities the meeting would not resume
".
In view of the distressing show in the enclosure bordering the Paris ring road, the referee obviously made the right decision to put an end to this nightmarish evening which had started well.
Because no incident had disrupted the start of the match marked by the absence of the Lyon supporters.
Hooded Lyon supporters in the stands Aurelien Morissard / PANORAMIC
Lyon supporters arrive late at the stadium
These, sometimes hooded to escape the images of the video surveillance, arrived a little half an hour late at the stadium, isolated from the rest of the public, family, by a simple plexiglass wall.
The temperature would rise very quickly, following provocations between Lyon supporters and a few individuals who had come to encourage Paris FC, a club which has never experienced any notable problems with its supporters in recent years.
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A few minutes after the Lyon equalizer of Moussa Dembélé (44th) during the break, smoke was launched around the Lyon parking lot.
They were then picked up by supporters in the adjoining stand, then thrown to various places in this stand before extinguishing.
Two agricultural bomb explosions were also heard.
The atmosphere quickly rose in the stands.
Aurelien Morissard / PANORAMIC
Stewards overwhelmed by events
The plexiglass wall then gave way very quickly and fights, as well as crowd movements broke out in the Lyon parking lot and the neighboring stand, occupied by families and many children, leading to the deployment of law enforcement officers who came to lend. a helping hand to the stewards.
They were totally overwhelmed by events.
Families placed close to the incidents descended on the lawn, frightened, to move away, while in the stands the clashes continued, lit by the smoke of ultras from Lyon and despite calls for calm from the announcer.
The incidents begin, supporters descend from the stands BERTRAND GUAY / AFP
Frightened families take to the lawn
The referee and the players who were going to kick off the second period returned to the locker room.
To never come out.
These incidents are the latest in a long series in French stadiums since the start of the season.
They come three weeks after those of OL-OM where the match was also stopped after a plastic water bottle was thrown at Dimitri Payet.
Lyon supporters face the cordon of CRS BERTRAND GUAY / AFP
A supporter films the events with his smartphone.
BERTRAND GUAY / AFP
Paris FC rejects full responsibility for OL
It remains to determine the responsibilities of such incidents. The president of Paris FC blamed all the blame on the ultras from Lyon who came in large numbers and asked the president of Gones to act quickly to sanction this “
bunch of morons
”.
“Jean-Michel Aulas will have to calm his fanatics.
We managed to manage the Lensois in 2019. We have no lessons to receive.
We thought there was enough security.
When OL and OM insult each other, it is not normal that other clubs are penalized.
Everyone must take their responsibilities.
We have to stop making up stories.
Sanctions must be exemplary.
I have heard things in the halls that are beyond comprehension.
We know that the incidents started from there.
I will not let the game redo.
The incidents always come from the same clubs.
They are not supporters
”, declared the leader at the microphone of
RMC.
The police intervene.
Aurelien Morissard / PANORAMIC
Aulas will take sanctions but ...
A version of the facts disputed in the camp opposite by Jean-Michel Aulas whose club is once again involved in fan excesses: "
Responsibilities are shared, it is a concern of society ... full of elements show me that we have a responsibility and that we are going to clean up but the first throws of firecrackers on the Lyon supporters were not made between Lyonnais.
So there was a rebellion.
We also saw on the ground that hundreds of people were not from Lyon.
You have to do the analysis and recognize the responsibility.
We will punish, but we cannot bear all the responsibility.
You have to analyze everything.
"
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