The supporter who entered the lawn of the Vélodrome stadium to score a goal on Sunday during the OM-Nice match was sentenced on Tuesday to six months in prison.
He accepted the sentence proposed by the Marseille public prosecutor’s office to three months in prison for this intrusion on the ground and the partial revocation of up to three months of a previous six-month suspended prison sentence pronounced in November 2021.
This 21-year-old Turkish facade maker was sentenced according to the procedure of prior recognition of guilt (plead guilty) upon leaving police custody.
The court also sentenced him to a stadium ban for three years.
His first in a stadium
The young man was cheered after his goal in the Nice cages by the public at the Vélodrome stadium who then booed the ten stewards who rushed on him and took him out of the field unceremoniously.
Even if the sanction was accepted by his client, Me Pascal Luongo nevertheless pointed to the “relative severity of the sentence proposed by the prosecution for what was only a good-natured act, a stroke of madness as he himself recognized before the prosecutor.”
“Although it disturbed the organization of the meeting, this act is nonetheless of a rather festive nature, in any case peaceful” underlined the lawyer who intends to seize a sentence enforcement judge to convert the six months firm in community service hours or fine days.
The president of the court reminded the young man that “when you go to see a match, you stay in your place, you don’t go on the lawn, it’s an offense.” The defendant said he had never been to the stadium before this incredible stunt.