The disciplinary committee of the Professional Football League rendered a first decision after the excesses during the defeat of FC Nantes at La Beaujoire, against Le Havre, last Sunday.
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This is a first decision taken by the LFP, and it is rather lenient.
“In view of the seriousness of the facts and the risk of recurrence, the Disciplinary Committee of the LFP decides to put the file under investigation and pronounces the following precautionary measure, until the final decision is pronounced”: the partial closure of the Loire stand at the La Beaujoire stadium.
The Loire stand will therefore be partly closed for the reception at Stade Rennais on December 8.
Sunday November 24, FC Nantes hosted Le Havre at La Beaujoire. In the first period, the supporters were at the origin of a first and brief interruption of the match by throwing tennis balls and toilet paper towards the goals of Alban Lafont, the Nantes goalkeeper.
While FC Nantes and Le Havre were playing in added time of the second half, the match was interrupted for almost half an hour when Nantes supporters from the Loire stand tried to invade the pitch after throwing projectiles. They were furious to see their team trailing 2-0.
The referee then sent both teams to the locker rooms and called a “crisis unit”.
Calm will not return after intervention by the CRS and security agents.
Earlier this week, the Interior Ministry confirmed “the launch of a procedure to dissolve Brigade Loire is being studied”, the day after the declarations of Minister Bruno Retailleau to our colleagues from Ouest-France, indicating that he was studying “very seriously” the launch of such a procedure.
“Beyond this long procedure which must be legally secure, firm individual sanctions rather than collective sanctions are to be preferred,” for its part, indicated the office of the Ministry of Sports.
“We must concentrate more in the short term on the 70 to 80 individuals who tried to invade the pitch and issue exemplary bans as quickly as possible in order to avoid further excesses for the next matches,” had underlined the Ministry of Sports, recalling that the Brigade Loire is not an association, but a “de facto group”.
“The dissolution would necessarily take place over a long period of time and the troublemakers could always go to the stadium,” the Ministry of Sports had specified.
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