According to information from L'Equipe, a new complaint was filed this Monday against the LFP and DAZN after homophobic chants heard in Geoffroy-Guichard during Saint-Etienne-Strasbourg on Saturday.
New slip-ups in the stands in Ligue 1 this weekend. Already in the eye of the storm during the reception of Lille on September 13 and a trip to Angers on October 26, the Saint-Etienne supporters were once again talked about this Saturday, during the reception of Strasbourg. The latter sang their anti-Lyonnais song and thus launched the derby which will be played on Sunday November 10 at Groupama Stadium (8:45 p.m.). “We are the Stéphanois, oh Lyonnais, you bunch of pe**ers! To see our team win, we are going to f**k you all.”
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The Minister of Sports raises his voice
According to information from L'Equipe, a new complaint was filed this Monday by the Stop Homophobia association against DAZN and the LFP for “insults and provocations of hatred or violence against a group of people because of their sexual orientation. “It will be systematic, we will file a complaint every Monday as long as the situation persists”, indicated Me Deshoulières, lawyer for the association fighting homophobia, daily.
The day after the meeting at Geoffroy-Guichard, the Minister of Sports, Gil Avérous, confirmed that he would speak with the Forez club “in the coming days to move forward”. “Unacceptable. I do not want to be outraged every Sunday. Sung or not, the messages which trivialize rejection and discrimination must stop. Young people suffer from this every day. We must identify, challenge and ban from stadiums the few who still pretend not to understand. We are working on it with Bruno Retailleau and Othman Nasrou. The stadiums must be places of gathering and shared emotions where no citizen is rejected. , he wrote on X.
The Secretary of State to the Minister of the Interior asked the Professional Football League this Sunday evening to explain “why the match Saint-Étienne-Strasbourg was not interrupted”. For its part, the “Rouge Direct” collective called on the government this Sunday in a message broadcast on social networks accompanied by a video of the songs addressed to the Lyonnais.
