Sunday December 1, the football match between Le Vigan and Rousson was stopped for suspicion of racist insults. Since then, the president of the Viganais club Simon Clément has had difficulty with his accusations and has explained them.
Since Sunday December 1, the president of the Vigan football club Simon Clément indicates that he is having a hard time seeing the match between his club and team two from Rousson being stopped for suspicion of racist insults towards the referee. and a Rousson player. “We are tarnishing the image of the club and of an entire city. In thirty years, I have never heard racist insults from us. In our team as in the public, it is multicultural. There is respect. We to unaccompanied minors who come from Africa If there had been the slightest racist insult, the author would have been expelled from the stands. This story makes me upset.
Last Sunday, the management of the Rousson club indicated that they were shocked because one of their players was the subject, according to them, of racist insults as was the referee who decided to stop the match at half-time while Le Vigan led 1 to 0. Simon Clément does not quite have this version of the facts.
He indicates that the referee of the match informed him that he had been insulted several times by part of the public: “He asked me to intervene so that this would stop or the match would be stopped if it continued. It was at that moment that the captain of Rousson came to meet us to report that one of his players had been the victim of racist abuse. […] No one present, including the referee, heard this insult.”
For the Viganais president, the referee had to stop the match because the Rousson team decided not to continue the match in this heated context. “I filed a complaint with the police for defamation”confides Simon Clément. The Rousson club does not plan to file a complaint on its part.
