Fabio Grosso was injured in the face last Sunday while the Lyon players’ bus was stoned.
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OL coach Fabio Grosso will be heard on Tuesday October 31 or Wednesday November 1 by investigators, indicates the Marseille prosecutor. After the incidents before the meeting between OM and OL on Sunday evening and the postponement of the match, the Marseille police and the Lyon police will work hand in hand. They will interview witnesses and comb through video surveillance images as well as images filmed by cell phones, in search of suspects.
The hypothesis “from an ambush” tense by Marseille supporters is for the moment “unlikely”, according to the Marseille prosecutor, Nicolas Bessone. Due to work, the Lyon bus did not take its usual route. The magistrate therefore believes that it could be a spontaneous movement. An investigation was opened into premeditated violence in a meeting near a stadium. These acts are punishable by 10 years in prison.
Three open investigations
“No one has been arrested at this stage“, regarding the attack on the OL players’ bus. For the attack on another bus, that of Lyon supporters, two men aged 22 and 50 were arrested and placed in police custody on Monday specifies the Marseille prosecutor. The OL supporters bus also suffered “a hail of jets of various and varied projectiles”.
Three investigations are underway, after the incidents which led to the cancellation of the match between Marseille and Lyon on Sunday evening. Lyon coach Fabio Grosso, injured in the face, was granted 30 days of total incapacity for work (ITT). An investigation was opened for provoking racial hatred targeting Lyon supporters who uttered monkey cries and made Nazi salutes in the stadium. The other two investigations relate to the stone-breaking of the OL bus and that of a bus transporting supporters of the Rhone club.