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Celtic cross on a flag belonging to Reims supporters: the League takes up the case

2022-05-02T15:43:20.382Z


The Disciplinary Committee of the Professional Football League (LFP) has decided to open proceedings after the deployment of a flag of


The League will open an investigation.

The LFP disciplinary committee has indeed taken up the case after the deployment of a flag with a Celtic cross in the parking lot of Reims, Sunday in Lorient (1-2), according to RMC Sport.

He will be placed under investigation for a procedure which generally lasts a fortnight.

The sanctions will be determined according to the specific elements of the file in the coming weeks.

Sunday, the delegate of the meeting had registered the presence of this symbol in the report of the match.

01.05.2022🇫🇷Reims (Mesos Reims hooligans) away match in Lorient https://t.co/Fjy3xrlEmQ pic.twitter.com/988AIN7OBv

— Hooligans.cz Official (@hooliganscz1999) May 1, 2022

The image of the flag was shared on social media before the item was removed during the encounter.

The presence of the flag of France crossed out with a Celtic cross provoked the indignation of the League of Human Rights of the country of Lorient, which associates it with the extreme right-wing group of the GUD (Groupe Union DĂ©fense).

She thus sent a text to Fabrice Loher, the UDI mayor of Lorient, as well as the presidents of the two clubs, Jean-Pierre Caillot and LoĂŻc FĂ©ry, in order to demand sanctions.

The file was also sent to the national LDH to possibly initiate legal proceedings.

"The GUD is a far-right student organization, which is regularly reborn under other acronyms, but whose racist and xenophobic discourse and acts are sufficiently constant and known to the press, but also to Justice, to be denounced, is it written in the press release.

In this case, they have no place in the public space, and a fortiori in a football stadium, a sport that wants to be exemplary in this respect.

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Source: leparis

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