The disciplinary committee of the Professional Football League (LFP) will not sanction Olympique de Marseille for the stone-throwing of the Lyon coaches, it announced on the evening of Wednesday, November 8.
“After having read the elements of the file and having heard the two clubs”, the commission, contacted by the president of the LFP, Vincent Labrune, “notes that the incidents which occurred on the public highway are not likely to engage the responsibility of the organizing club”, it is written in the press release. “Therefore, the Commission will not take disciplinary action on these incidents,” the League added.
As is often the case when Lyonnais travel to Marseille, the bus convoy carrying the OL team and its supporters was targeted by cobblestones before a match against OM in the city. Marseille on October 29. But this time, the Lyon coach, Fabio Grosso, was hit in the head by the shattering of a window of the bus in which he was on. He had twelve stitches and was given thirty days of temporary incapacity for work. His deputy was also hit and six buses out of the ten in the convoy were damaged.
Two supporters prosecuted
After consultation with the two clubs, public authorities, representatives of the LFP and the referee, it was decided not to play the match that evening. The meeting has been postponed to December 6, but the venue, the subject of tension between the two clubs, has not yet been determined.
Two Marseille supporters arrested in connection with these incidents are being prosecuted for willful violence in meetings with premeditation. One of them was placed in pre-trial detention.
The disciplinary committee also opened an investigation after racist chants and gestures observed in the stadium’s visitor parking lot by Lyon fans. The decision is expected on November 22.
