A secretary of state wanted the match interrupted on Saturday

In conclusion of this article, we indicated that the subject should come up frequently in the general news of Ligue 1 and also more precisely in that of AS Saint-Étienne. One match was enough for the controversy to face its return, once again at the initiative of the Collectif Rouge Direct.

A publication which caused a reaction since the Minister of Sports, Youth and Community Life published his indignation on the social network X: “Unacceptable. I do not want to be outraged every Sunday. Sung or not, the messages which trivialize rejection and discrimination must stop. Young people suffer from this every day. We must identify, challenge and ban from stadiums the few who still pretend not to understand. We are working on it with Bruno Retailleau and Othman Nasrou. The stadiums must be places of gathering and shared emotions where no citizen is rejected. I will go to meet ASSE in the coming days, to move forward.”

Othman Nasrou, Secretary of State to the Minister of the Interior, went further, questioning the LFP about the non-interruption of Saturday's match against Strasbourg, after the song denounced by the Rouge Direct collective:

“With Bruno Retailleau and Gil Averous, we told the football authorities our determination to put an end to homophobic chants. The LFP must explain to us why the Saint-Etienne – Strasbourg match was not interrupted.”

The Secretary of State was also reframed by Pierre Barthélémy, lawyer for the National Supporters Association, very committed to the supporters' cause and involved in particular within the National Supporters Authority (INS) which does not did not fail to point out to him that when the INS was working on the subject with representatives of supporters groups but not only that, the Government was conspicuous by its absence…

In any case, the noose seems to be tightening around ASSE, which could once again serve as an example. For in-depth work, however, moving around, there is nothing to see.