Three FC Nantes supporters were sentenced this Thursday to six and three months suspended imprisonment by the court for violence and degradation that took place at the end of May at the Beaujoire stadium.
While players and employees of FC Nantes were celebrating their retention in Ligue 1, around fifty hooded people had burst into the stadium enclosure before attacking a security guard and a waitress, and causing material damage. .
Arrested a little later in the evening near the stadium, two of the three supporters were ordered to pay 900 euros in damages to FC Nantes.
They also received a one-year ban from attending sporting events.
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, regretted to AFP the lawyer of Miles R., Me Aristote Toussaint, whose client was sentenced to six months in prison for degradation and violence in meetings. He plans to appeal. During the trial, one of the defendants, a fervent supporter of FC Nantes and engaged against Waldemar Kita, owner and president of the club since 2007, explained that he had experienced as an “
act of provocation
” and a “
lack of respect
” the fact that relatives of the management have that evening recovered and brought back to the stadium the coffin of "FC Kita".
This false coffin had been solemnly buried near the stadium by a thousand supporters, a week before the events, the culmination of a season of mobilization against the Kita family.