Dimitri Payet “very shocked”
Shortly after the incident, Jacques Cardoze (OM communications director) gave news of Dimitri Payet at the microphone of the‘Team : “Dimitri Payet will return with us to Marseille. There have been medical findings that have been made. I don’t know the details but you can imagine that Dimitri is very shocked. He spent long minutes lying in the locker room. Looks to me like he was hit in the temple, twice seen by the doctors tonight. Throughout the evening, we first tried to find out the position of the referee, who obviously had to take a number of parameters into consideration. A bit like in Nice unfortunately, it was mentioned that, if the match was stopped, there was a risk of disturbing public order.“, he said at first.”It is the role of the state, and therefore of the prefect, to explain it. But from a sporting point of view, Mr. Buquet was very clear. He has always been very firm on his positions, saying that sporting fairness will not be respected. How do you resume a match when you know that one of your players has been hit?“, he concluded.
Four individuals arrested and placed in police custody
If the evening was a nightmare for football fans, the 32-year-old author of the projectile throw would have been arrested by the police a few minutes after his reckless gesture, according to information from The team. He was taken to the nearest police station and his custody could be extended during the day. Still according to our colleagues, three other supporters, aged 17 and 18, were also arrested last night and taken into police custody. They are suspected of having cracked smoke and throwing projectiles at players.
A very sad evening for the image of our football, increasingly popular internationally, but whose image is tarnished every week by this kind of event.