After OL’s victory against Nantes this Sunday (2-0), several clashes broke out between two groups of Rhone supporters. A member of the Six Nine Pirates was stabbed in the thigh, provoking the ire of NFP MPs.
The day after the altercation between two groups of Lyon supporters, leaving one injured with a stab, the NFP deputies of the Rhône denounced this Monday, October 7 in a press release “numerous and repeated attacks”, calling for “firm sanctions and sustainable.
This Sunday, scuffles broke out at Groupama Stadium after Olympique Lyonnais’ victory against Nantes (2-0) between the Bad Gones and the Six Neuf Pirates, two groups of supporters of the Rhone club. One of the members of the Six Nine Pirates was notably injured in the thigh after receiving a stab.
“Let us remember what sport must be. Universal, popular and family”, insisted the left in a press release co-signed by the deputies rebelliousAnaïs Belouassa-Cherifi, Idir Boumertit and Abdelkader Lahmar, the deputy ecologistMarie-Charlotte Garin and the deputy socialist Sandrine Runel.
According to information from BFM Lyon, a supporter was also arrested for carrying a prohibited weapon at Groupama Stadium during the match.
A call to football clubs
For the Rhône deputies, this recent attack is not an “isolated” fact, but takes place in “a particular context and climate”. The “repeated” attacks and excesses between opposing supporters or the same club, “no longer allow all audiences to come to the stadium in complete safety”, deplored the elected officials, also slowing down the arrival of “many families”.
“Its practice (sport, Editor’s note), like the right to watch it and go to sporting events must be accessible and secure,” said the Rhône deputies.
In order to make stadiums “friendly and warm” places, the left called on the management of football clubs and in particular Olympique Lyonnais to “act together” to fight against violence in the world of sport.
Fight against small far-right groups
This call, launched by NFP deputies, is based on an observation: the establishment and strengthening of small far-right groups within matches in recent years.
“Monkey cries, Nazi salutes, racist insults and violence before and after matches on the road and in Lyon cannot be the image of Olympique Lyonnais,” protested the elected officials in the press release.
The fight against the generalization of violence in the stadiums of France cannot be done without going through “a fight against the establishment of small groups of the extreme right and their hateful ideology”, estimated the latter, whether “at stadium or outside.
The deputies also called for “firm and lasting sanctions” against “today’s aggressors”, the only condition for the stadiums to “finally become secure places” where “collective joy” reigns. “We call on clubs, Football Federations and ministries to fully commit to this,” concluded the Rhône deputies.
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