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Secretary of State Othman Nasrou challenged the LFP on November 3, 2024, while the Saint-Etienne-Strasbourg match was not stopped despite homophobic chants.
Football – Request for explanation. The Secretary of State responsible for the fight against discrimination Othman Nasrou called out the Professional Football League (LFP) on X this Sunday, November 3, after homophobic insults were heard during the Saint-Étienne-Strasbourg match on Saturday.
“With Bruno Retailleau and Gil Avérous, we told the football authorities our determination to put an end to homophobic chants. The LFP must explain to us why the Saint-Étienne-Strasbourg match was not interrupted,” written by Othman Nasrou.
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The alert was given by Rouge direct, which fights against homophobia in football, earlier in the day. Insulting chants towards the Lyonnais, who ASSE meets next Sunday, would have started in the 9th minute of the match, but the “match stoppage procedure (was not) applied”regretted the collective on the social network.
The LFP did not respond
A few days earlier, the Minister of Sports Gil Avérous had nevertheless announced that matches where racist or homophobic cries were heard would be “ stopped and lost for the receiving team. Which was not done on Saturday evening.
However, if Gil Avérous had been firm, the Minister of the Interior had distanced himself from this radical measure. “Stopping matches is very complicated, it is not the right solution. But we need a temporary interruption”he nuanced on RMC, thus contradicting the Minister of Sports.
At the time of writing, the LFP has not (yet) responded to Secretary of State Othman Nasrou or to the government.
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