Bobigny (AFP)

An investigation was opened for contempt of the Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu, heckled Friday at the Bauer stadium in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis) by supporters on the sidelines of a football match, we learned on Monday with the Bobigny prosecution, confirming information from the Parisian.

Coming privately Friday evening at the National Championship match (third football division) between the Red Star and Quevilly-Rouen, the Minister of Sports was taken to task at half-time by a dozen spectators, while it was at the back of the stadium.

A video posted on social networks shows the former swimmer regaining his car under the jibes and wiping a few jets of water.

"There was a troop effect, it got a little worse, in + Macron mode, resignation +" and the police "took responsibility for exfiltrating the stadium," the entourage told AFP. of the Minister, in the midst of a challenge to the government's pension reform.

The investigation was entrusted to the Sûreté territoriale of Seine-Saint-Denis.

The president of the French Football Federation, Noël Le Graët, had apologized on Saturday while the Red Star club has promised to take sanctions.

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