Dimitri Payet files a complaint after being hit in the head by a water bottle
Olympique de Marseille playmaker Dimitri Payet, hit in the head on Sunday evening by a full water bottle in Lyon, lodged a complaint “within the framework of the investigation of the prosecutor of Lyon”, announced the Marseille club to AFP on Monday, November 22, confirming information from RMC Sport. OM will become a civil party in this case, as will the National Union of Professional Footballers (UNFP). In addition to being a civil party, the players’ union has also filed a complaint against the aggressor of Dimitri Payet.
Following incidents during @OL–@OM_Officiel, @UNFP decided to file a complaint against the aggressor of @ dimpayet17, to become a civil party in the name of the profession and in the interest of the players and the request for exemplary sanctions.
▶ ️https://t.co/G1oxUViL6u pic.twitter.com/gS24sHFWDM– UNFP (@UNFP) 22 November 2021
OM number 10, “very shocked” by this aggression which triggered the final stoppage of the match against Olympique Lyonnais on Sunday evening, consulted occupational medicine, at the request of the Lyon prosecutor, at the Marseille club, without specifying whether a work stoppage was issued.
Dimitri Payet is regularly targeted by opposing supporters and he had already been hit by a bottle full of water, in the back, when he was about to draw a corner in Nice, end. Reacting angrily, he returned the bottle to the stands, a gesture that triggered the invasion of the field by several Aiglons supporters and the end of the match.
The incident on Sunday evening, during the last match of the 14th day of Ligue 1, took place just five minutes after kick-off. It then took two hours for the authorities on the spot, and in particular the referee of the match, Ruddy Buquet, to decide to stop the match definitively.
This decision to take a real imbroglio mixing Lyon and Marseille leaders, the referee of the match, the Professional Football League (LFP) and the prefecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, each refusing to take responsibility for the stoppage of the match.