A decision that gets people talking! While the second half of the clash of the 15th day of Ligue 1 between Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique Lyonnais is being played, Benoit Bastien decides to temporarily stop the match. The reason, insulting chants coming from the Auteuil stand towards the Gones: “The Lyonnais are sluts” repeated for long minutes. On the stadium screens, a message is broadcast: “RESPECT. Insulting chants are prohibited. The match could be stopped, or even lost for the club”, we could read. And after seeing Achraf Hakimi come to the corner to try to stop this, the match was able to resume.
Songs not necessarily looped
Enough to get people talking when on Saturday afternoon, at the Stade Vélodrome, insulting and homophobic chants against the people of Lille were heard: “We must kill these fags from Lille” could resonate in the south of France. No interruptions were reported. And as the newspaper reveals the Teamthis was not the case because “they are not in a loop”, unlike what happened for many minutes at the Parc des Princes. However, the disciplinary committee will still look into it and could impose a sanction. And the sanction will also depend on the nature of the insults: insulting or sexist, therefore discriminatory.
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We know more about the reasons that pushed Benoit Bastien to stop the clash between PSG and OL, and why the one between OM and Lille was not stopped.
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