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.