After incidents that have punctuated several Ligue 1 football matches, the government has announced a series of measures to try to put an end to the violence in the stadiums. A match will be like this “Systematically and definitively interrupted” when a player or a referee is injured by a projectile launched from the stands, he said in a statement after a meeting with representatives of French football.
In the event of an incident in a stadium, a crisis unit that does not include the presidents of the clubs concerned will also have to decide in a maximum of thirty minutes on the fate of the meeting, further specifies this press release signed by the interior ministers, Gérald Darmanin. , sports, Roxana Maracineanu, and justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti.
Also, the sale and the carrying of plastic bottles – of which the Marseillais Dimitri Payet was victim during a meeting between Marseille and Lyon, on November 21 – will be banned in football stadiums “No later than 1er July 2022 », adds the press release.
Anti-spray safety devices for 2022-2023
The executive trio gathered Thursday morning the president of the Professional Football League (LFP), Vincent Labrune, the boss of the French Football Federation (FFF), Noël Le Graët, as well as representatives of the refereeing body, representatives of clubs French and several prefects. It was to unveil the conclusions of the working groups launched on November 23, two days after the interruption of the Lyon-Marseille meeting.
Regarding stadium bans, the participants in the interministerial meeting considered that the current system was ” sufficient “, but that he could be “Better applied”. “In the medium term, a reflection will be carried out for the creation of a fixed tort fine (AFD), that is to say a penal sanction which is pronounced, outside a trial, by a police officer, a gendarme or an authorized public official ”, in order to repress “The introduction, possession and use of rockets or fireworks of any kind in a sports arena”, is it specified.
In addition, Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 clubs will all need to put in place “Anti-spray safety devices”, for example safety nets, from the 2022-2023 season, installable for certain matches on recommendation of the prefects.
