Stop Homophobia, in partnership with the Collectif Rouge Direct, filed a complaint this Monday, before the Paris Public Prosecutor and before the ARCOM, for homophobic insults and incitement to hatred against DAZN and the LFP, while homophobic songs were were heard this weekend on the pitches of Ligue 1.
The numerous warnings issued last week were in vain. The Ligue 1 weekend was once again marred by homophobic chants heard in the stands. This was particularly the case during Angers-Saint-Étienne this Saturday afternoon. “We are the Stéphanois, oh Lyonnais, you bunch of bastards! To see our team win, we are going to fuck you all up!”, we heard in particular from the side of the Raymond-Kopa stadium.
The Classic between OM and PSG did not escape this bad habit either. Before kick-off, the Marseille supporters chanted several times: “we have to kill these p***ing Parisians”, “Paris, Paris, we're getting rid of you”. New slip-ups which encourage Stop Homophobia, in partnership with the Collectif Rouge Direct, to file a complaint this Monday before the Paris Public Prosecutor and before the ARCOM, for homophobic insults and incitement to hatred against DAZN and the LFP.
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DAZN “responsible for insults and public incitement to hatred”
“These songs are still broadcast by DAZN on its platform. These comments constitute the offense of public insults and public provocations of hatred or violence towards a group of people because of their sexual orientation,” indicates the Stop Homophobia association. , through his lawyer, in a press release. “To the extent that the publishing director of DAZN offers the rebroadcast of football matches on its platform, it is responsible for the insults and public provocations to homophobic hatred or violence due to the rebroadcast of the songs on this platform.”
Faced with the increase in these acts in recent months, the Government has launched proposals. The Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau wants to place “police officers or gendarmes, very regularly, in civilian clothes in the stadiums to individually identify so-and-so who is leading the dance, so-and-so who is slipping, the perpetrators of troubles.” “I want much more personalized and individualized sanctions. You won't see them. We will have a system. I'm not going to tell you where they will be,” declared Bruno Retailleau in the show Rothen ignites this Thursday.
For his part, the Minister of Sports Gil Avérous wanted to send a strong message in the face of the increase in violence in stadiums. He thus proposed “a suspension of the match for a few minutes, then possibly an interruption of the match” as soon as a homophobic chant is sung. “The higher level is the stopping of the match and the match lost 3-0 for the receiving team. The request that was made to the League and to the FFF in general is now to apply strictly the regulations”, he explained on BFMTV.
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