OL calls for “exemplary criminal” sanctions (press release)
In a statement, Olympique Lyonnais condemned the incidents that occurred against Marseille on Sunday evening.
Olympique Lyonnais declared on Monday “want criminal and administrative sanctions to be exemplary“, After the bottle thrown on the Marseille player, Dimitri Payet, which caused the final interruption of the OL-OM match, Sunday in Lyon.
“‘The institution’ intends to be able to strike off the individual for life if the League and the courts give the club the means to do so“, Supported, in a press release published Monday at midday, the Rhone club.
“Olympique Lyonnais and its president will participate in all analysis, work and proposal meetings so that this type of aggression never happens again and allows our football to take place in optimal security conditions.“, Continues OL.
The club lodged a complaint against the individual, arrested and placed in police custody and has already filed a civil suit for the rest of the proceedings.
Since Sunday, OL, beyond the series of meetings that led to the final cessation of the match, pleads for action “of an isolated case“.
“The individual had nothing to do here as he was not a subscriber to supporters groups. There was no way to repeat this incident afterwards. That’s why the first decision was to restart the match“, Tried to defend Jean-Michel Aulas Sunday evening, during an impromptu press conference on Prime Video.
Arguments reiterated in the club’s press release on Monday as well as the rapid identification of the culprit “thanks to the many cameras“Present in the enclosure, which allowed the president of OL to discuss”Lyon’s exemplary safety in a hyper-secure stadium“.
OL also defend Jean-Michel Aulas’ version of events, and raise the change in decision of Ruddy Buquet.
The club regrets “the length of the decision-making due to the various procrastination around the resumption or not of the match which lasted nearly two hours. Contrary to what has been mentioned, it is indeed the referee who took, as specified in the rules, the decision (even if a crisis meeting, prior, had about a first decision to resume the match) . Ruddy Buquet has also called in his locker room the two coaches and captains, who have confirmed to confirm, to signify the resumption of the match and the timing of return to the field.“
For its part, the group of ultras “Bad Gones», Located in the north bend of the Décines-Charpieu stadium from which the bottle that hit Payet started, also condemned, in a statement without a word for the Marseillais, the gesture of the individual arrested, specifying like Jean-Michel Aulas that he was “neither a stadium subscriber nor a member of their association“.