The father of a young Stade Rennais player was sentenced on Tuesday to a suspended fine of 600 euros and a citizenship course for attacking the director of the club's training center in April.
The Rennes criminal court accompanied his conviction with a ban on sports grounds for one year and a ban on contact with the victim for an equivalent period.
Robert Françoise, 49, was also ordered to pay one euro in damages to Stade Rennais.
Father of Noah Françoise, 18-year-old midfielder under professional contract since 2021, the man had admitted to the hearing the aggression of Denis Arnaud on April 23, after a match for the reserve team, regretting a "stupid" gesture. after losing his "coolness".
However, he denied having struck the director, whom he had pressed against a fence.
An assault condemned by his son
The prosecution had requested a fine of 800 euros and a citizenship course within six months, with a ban on coming into contact with the victim and in a stadium for one year.
"It seems like a good decision to me," said Me Thierry Fillion, the club's lawyer, on Tuesday.
What mattered to Mr. Arnaud is that the courts say that he had been the victim of unacceptable violence.
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After the assault, Noah Françoise himself condemned on Instagram "this incident, beyond my control, which absolutely does not reflect the values in which I believe and in which I grew up".
Asked shortly after the facts, the Rennes coach, Bruno Genesio, had estimated that the young player, “a boy who has always behaved well”, had “nothing to do” with it.
