a meeting scheduled for Tuesday between Gérald Darmanin, Roxana Maracineanu and the football authorities

Decisions go bsoon to fall. the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu will meet with the Professional Football League at the Ministry of the Interior on Tuesday 23 November to see “what to do” after the bottle was thrown at Dimitri Payet during the Ligue 1 match between Lyon and Marseille on Sunday at Groupama Stadium which led to the final stoppage of the match.

What happened in Lyon is unacceptable. I think first of the attacked player. Dimitri Payet has my full support.
We need sanctions and a general, immediate and radical awareness of all football players

– Roxana Maracineanu (@RoxaMaracineanu) November 21, 2021

the match was interrupted in the 3rd minute when the phocean player, came to take a corner, was hit in the head by a bottle of water thrown from the stands by a supporter. The match did not come to an end, a decision taken by the referee of the meeting, Ruddy Buquet.

Minister Roxana Maracineanu did not fail to react and slap her fist on the table after this incident, asking the Professional Football League to “clarify your rules“so that the next assault on a player in the game “results in an automatic stoppage of the match”. Unfortunately, this is not the first time such an incident has occurred in a championship stadium since the start of the season.