As expected, the Disciplinary Committee of the Professional Football League did not have a heavy hand following suspicions of racist remarks coming from the stands during the Stade de Reims – Stade Brestois match on February 20. After a 15-day instruction, the Disciplinary Committee has pronounced a suspended match closure of block 14 of the Meano stand at the Stade Delaune. It was in this block that a spectator had clearly uttered racist remarks, relayed in a video on tweeter. But this was an isolated act and in no way group behavior. The club had managed to identify the person before filing a complaint against her. As we revealed to you this morning, the instruction had however failed to confirm the words of a spectator who had tweeted during the match at the Delaune stadium, denouncing remarks deemed racist as “We are in France”“One two three, go back to your country”. It was his tweet that had caused an uncontrolled and above all disproportionate “buzz”.
The Stade de Reims therefore sees this as a very symbolic sanction, also to avoid trivializing racist remarks, even isolated, in a stadium. Note that this suspended sanction can only be transformed into a firm sanction if the same words are repeated by the end of the season and only… in block 14.