om | Marseille: a Marseille supporter indicted for attempted murder during the OM-Frankfurt match
The supporter had been close to death, the author of the projectile jet was indicted. More than a month after the Champions League match between OM and Eintracht Frankfurt, a 26-year-old Marseille supporter has been indicted on charges of attempted murder, intentional violence, participation in a criminal association, and use of rockets or fireworks within a sports arena, indicates the Marseille prosecutor’s office in a communicated.
An indictment following the incidents that had punctuated the pre-match on September 13 between the supporters of the two teams. In its press release, the prosecution clarified that “pyrotechnic devices, were thrown on either side by the Marseille supporters in the lower part of the north bend and the German supporters in the visitor park of the Jean Bouin stand“.
120 days of ITT
Still according to the prosecution, “one of these projectiles, identified as a distress flare, hit a German supporter in the neck. The victim, a 65-year-old man at the time, was seriously injured; his damage being assessed by the doctor of the Medico-Legal Unit at 120 days of total incapacity for work (ITT). Present at his side, his companion, aged 64, was burned at the level of the hand while trying to withdraw the projectile“.
Arrested Wednesday on the rogatory commission of the examining magistrate by the investigators of the Departmental Security of Bouches-du-Rhône, the alleged author of the shooting of the projectile was placed in police custody. “During his police custody, he admitted to being the author of the projectile fire in the direction of the parking lot, having seriously injured the German supporter.“, specifies the parquet floor. Presented at the end of indictment to a judge of freedoms and the, the 26-year-old supporter was left free.
The prosecution appealed this decision.