Two spectators wearing “Le 49.3 tue” t-shirts interrupted the meeting by climbing on the crossbar to attach themselves to the posts.
Rugby like tennis or cycling before him. No one has forgotten, for example, the environmental activist who attached himself – at neck level – to the net of the Philippe-Chatrier court during the Roland-Garros semi-final between Casper Ruud and Marin Cilic last June. This Saturday, it was the turn of the Top 14 to experience a similar event…
While the shock between the first two of the class – Stade Toulousain and Stade Français – had started for a quarter of an hour, two spectators thwarted the attention of the security service to enter the lawn and rush towards poles. Very quickly, the two men sporting t-shirts on which were written “49.3 kills” and “We have 872 days left– in reference to the measures taken recently by the government – climbed on the crossbar and then attached themselves to the posts.
The stewards dislodged them using a ladder and the match was able to resume after a short ten-minute break. “It seemed to me that rugby was not political, but obviously some people appropriate it“, declared Ugo Mola, the Toulouse coach, at the microphone of Canal + during the interruption.