The match between Lyon and Marseille was interrupted at the start of the meeting on Sunday for a projectile throw against Dimitri Payet.
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The tone rises to the upper echelons after the new episode experienced by Ligue 1, Sunday, November 21. Sports Minister Roxana Maracineanu ruled “intolerable“the bottle spray launched on Marseille player Dimitri Payet in Lyon, on the occasion of the 14th day of the French championship. She called on the clubs to be aware”immediate and radical“as to security.
Olympique de Marseille player Dimitri Payet was hit in the face on Sunday evening by a bottle thrown by an OL supporter, causing the match to be stopped after an imbroglio between the leaders of the two clubs, the referee, the LFP (Professional football league) and the prefecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
“It is unacceptable. It is intolerable that we can attack the actors of the game by attacking them in this way.“, she reacted in a statement to the press, after a tweet indicating that this type of acts” must “at least result in the stoppage of matchesAs a reminder, many incidents of the same type have already broken out in Ligue 1 stadiums since the start of the season.
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 League will certainly have to clarify its regulations so that such an act of aggression on a player in the game results in an automatic stoppage of the match. Without immediate and radical awareness of the clubs to guarantee safety on the pitch and in the stands, we are going into the wall“, she added, before saying to herself”in favor of individual sanctions “ and to call for this act to be “punished“.