Also on Friday evening, the mayor of Châteauroux and former minister of sports Gil Avérous denounced these acts: “My thoughts go out to the Nîmes supporters, victims of an unacceptable attack in the visitor’s stand”he published on X. “I have said it, I say it again and I will say it again: violence has no place in sport. Football must remain a space of passion and respect, far from all violence”estimated the former minister of the Barnier government.