Volleyball: spectators seizing the ball and fight with a security guard, Narbonne withdraws after the incidents in Sète


The Narbonnais will not play match 4 of the French Championship against Sète this Saturday due to the serious incidents that occurred during the last clash between the two clubs on Thursday.

The Narbonne club withdrew for the fourth meeting against Sète on Saturday in the quarter-finals of the French volleyball championship, after the incidents that occurred between the two clubs during match 3 on Thursday.

We have just warned the League that we will be forfeited for match 4. After discussion with the players, it was not possible for them to return to this room two days after the incidents“Said club president Jérémie Ribourel.

The players are traumatized by what happened, they will write a press release on violence in sport, a political message“, he added.

Incidents began at the end of the third match won Thursday by Sète in front of his home crowd (3 sets to 1), when two Sète supporters seized the ball during an exchange.

The tension had risen a notch at the end of the meeting, when the physical trainer from Narbonne had “took a punch from a security guard who knocked him out“, According to a manager of the Hérault club. The situation had then degenerated, the Aude players trying to attack the security guard deemed to be at fault. “We blame the management of the Sète club for having endangered our players“, lambasted Jérémie Ribourel.

In reaction to Narbonne’s decision, the National Volleyball League (LNV) recalled on Saturday that it was “in favor of the match being held“. “We have done everything possible to ensure that the security conditions are optimal, by pronouncing a camera“, assured the League to AFP. “The series continues, there will be a fifth game“, specified the LNV.

Following this package, Sète is therefore tied for two matches everywhere before the final meeting, which is to take place on Wednesday in Narbonne, less than 100 km from the Hérault city.

After the third meeting on Thursday, two players and a member of the management of Narbonne filed a complaint with the Sète police station on Friday morning for “violence received“, according to a source with knowledge of the file.

The LNV announced on Friday “the opening of disciplinary proceedings against the Sète club by the disciplinary committee“.

The Narbonne Centurions, who finished the regular season in fourth place in Ligue A, won the first European trophy in their history in the Challenge Cup (C3) ahead of Ankara in March.



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