matches will be “permanently interrupted” if a referee or a player is injured by a projectile

They had given themselves two weeks. It finally took three weeks. After the meeting organized at Minister of the Interior on November 23, the government spoke on Thursday December 16 on the follow-up given to the incidents that occurred during the Ligue 1 meeting between Lyon and Marseille on November 21.

Among the decisions taken by the government after a meeting with representatives of French football, the final and systematic stopping of a match in the event of a referee or a player injured by a projectile, a maximum period of 30 minutes to decide the fate of the match, and the ban on plastic bottles in stadiums on July 1, 2022.

In the event of an incident in a stadium, a crisis unit not including the presidents of the clubs concerned will have to decide in 30 minutes maximum on the fate of the meeting, specifies a press release signed by the ministers Gérald Darmanin (Interior), Roxana Maracineanu ( Sports) and Éric Dupond-Moretti (Justice). The sale and carrying of plastic bottles will also be banned in football stadiums “no later than July 1, 2022”. As a reminder, lhe Lyon-Marseille match was interrupted in the 3rd minute after Dimitri Payet, who came to take a corner, was hit in the head by a bottle of water thrown from the stands.