As the second period got ready to start, the 32e of the Coupe de France final between Paris-FC and Lyon, played at the Charléty stadium in Paris, was definitively stopped on Friday, December 17 by incidents in the stands.
During the break, several smoke bombs were launched around the parking lot of Lyon supporters. Two agricultural bombs also exploded. The police were deployed in the parking lot and in an adjoining gallery. Spectators from this stand then descended on the lawn to move away from the scene of the incidents, preventing the resumption of the match. The referee and the players then returned to the locker room.
Ten minutes later, the public had returned to the stand after the intervention of the police and the stewards and the call for calm from the announcer. But at 10:25 p.m., the meeting had still not resumed, as well as the show the images of the channel Eurosport France.
At around 10:50 p.m., it was finally decided that the match would be abandoned for good. The two teams were tied 1 to 1.
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Long series of incidents
These incidents, the latest in a long series in French stadiums since the start of the season, occur the day after an interministerial meeting on violence in the stadiums, in which professional football leaders took part on Thursday. It has led to several reforms and lines of thought.
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, the government 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 match.
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. 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.
On Wednesday, the disciplinary committee of the LFP suspended the president of the Olympique Lyonnais, Jean-Michel Aulas, for five firm matches because of his ” behaviour “ during the OL-OM meeting. The manager had requested the resumption of play by asserting his membership of the FFF executive committee to the main referee, himself employed by the federation.