An 8-year-old child was attacked on Saturday evening by supporters at the François-Coty stadium in Ajaccio, on the sidelines of the meeting between AC Ajaccio and Olympique de Marseille, because he had come to the stadium wearing an OM jersey.
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Jean-Michel Aulas said on franceinfo Monday June 5, “horrified” after the attack on an 8-year-old child, suffering from cancer, on the sidelines of the Ajaccio-Marseille match on Saturday. Dressed in the colors of OM, his favorite club, the young boy was in the dressing rooms of the François-Coty stadium in Ajaccio, accompanied by his parents when Corsican supporters came after the match to jostle the child, before tear off his shirt and burn it, according to the child’s mother’s account.
It is “incredible drifts”according to Jean-Michel Aulas, honorary president, for almost a month, of Olympique Lyonnais, of which he was president for 36 years. “unspeakable acts”. Alain Orsoni, president of AC Ajaccio, announced on Sunday on franceinfo his desire to file a complaint after handing over the CCTV images to the police.
The emblematic former president of OL lamented a “effect of cruelty that is generated through these matches”. The family has also filed a complaint and the Ajaccio prosecutor has opened an investigation for violence in meetings. “These people need to realize that by hurting a sick child like this, we are drawing attention to all of football in an abject way”added Jean-Michel Aulas.
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