French football and the authorities must "
reestablish a dialogue
" with supporters and establish "
contracts
" with them, avoiding being "
more punitive
" in the face of excesses in the stadiums, the academic told AFP on Friday. Alain Bauer, in charge of a report on the subject.
After presenting his first lines of proposals to the Board of Directors of the Professional Football League (LFP) on Friday morning, Alain Bauer detailed for AFP the reforms envisaged after around fifty interviews with various actors.
The report is expected between mid-October and the end of October.
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“
Re-establishing a dialogue is an essential element.
But many supporters say that we do not listen to them
, ”he said in this interview.
“
We must consider that the supporters are partners, and not adversaries.
The idea is not to be more punitive, the general idea is to avoid having to become one.
»
Engage supporters in discussions
Professor at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers and head of the Security, Defense, Intelligence, Criminology, Cyber Threats and Crises Department, Alain Bauer was tasked with this report by the LFP in June after a series of excesses.
The academic suggests a decentralized logic of management of sporting events, bringing together around a table the club, its supporters, the State, the municipality, to move towards a "
contractualization
" between stakeholders.
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"
We must start talking to them again, dialogue, find partnerships, ways, and the judicial system must be within the contracts
," he argues.
“
We are in a partnership and contractual framework.
Everyone makes commitments.
And we have to get out of the collective sanction (like behind closed doors, editor's note).
We must keep it as the ultimate argument, but a deterrent that we use all the time is no longer a deterrent
,” he notes.
Towards a “Turkish” system?
Among his concrete proposals on ticketing, we find the possibility of a "
Turkish
" device, namely a fan card to access the stadiums, or a mechanism for certifying the holder of a ticket already used during a concert. of Ed Sheeran at the Stade de France.
The 2021-2022 football season was tumultuous as rarely in French stadiums, between the throwing of projectiles, the deployment of smoke bombs or the invasion of the pitch, up to the organizational failures of the Champions League final at the Stade de France.
A media figure and regular on television sets, Alain Bauer (60) was notably mandated in 2011 by the Minister of the Interior at the time, Brice Hortefeux, to co-write a "
white paper on public security
".
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