Paris (AFP)

The accusations of racism and homophobia around PSG-OM, notably implicating Neymar and studied Wednesday by the disciplinary commission of the League (LFP), evoke other cases in French football.

- 2007 and 2008: Kébé business and point withdrawal -

Libourne-Saint-Seurin - Bastia (Ligue 2), September 14, 2007: Burkinabé striker Libourne Boubacar Kébé, sent off for a middle finger to the attention of Bastia supporters, justifies his gesture by their racist behavior.

The disciplinary commission of the League (LFP) withdraws a point from the Corsican club - a first in a case of racism - sanction canceled in October 2008 by the administrative court of Bastia.

On his return on February 22, 2008, played in Corsica without Kebe, spectators unfurled an insulting banner towards the player.

Sporting is condemned to a game behind closed doors, with the withdrawal of two points.

- 2007: Baros, a gesture and a controversy -

Lyon-Rennes, April 18, 2007: Lyon striker Milan Baros pinches his nose and waves a hand in front, as if to fan a bad smell, addressing Cameroonian player Stéphane Mbia.

The Czech is suspended three matches for this "inadmissible gesture" but which is not "pure racism", according to the chairman of the disciplinary committee Jacques Riolacci.

- 2008: Ouaddou, insults and a cardboard -mbia

Metz-Valenciennes, February 16, 2008: the Valenciennois Abdeslam Ouaddou, targeted by racist insults from a spectator, goes up to the stand at half-time to explain himself to him.

The referee gives him a yellow card, a decision that angered the player: "He calls me a dirty nigga, a dirty nigger, and in addition you give me a card!"

Metz is sentenced to a game behind closed doors.

The cardboard has not been removed.

The supporter was given a three-month suspended prison sentence and a three-year stadium ban.

- 2008: Furlan, Grosso, and the "race" -

Strasbourg-Lyon, April 19, 2008: Alsatian coach Jean-Marc Furlan declares that OL Italian Fabio Grosso, whom he accuses of cheating, has not "denied his genes or his race."

Licra is moved by the "trivialization of this type of speech" in football.

The technician apologizes, recalling his own Italian origins.

- 2009: the homophobic and sexist slippage of Nicollin -

Auxerre - Montpellier, October 31, 2009: the president of Montpellier Louis Nicollin slips at the microphone of Canal + by qualifying the Auxerrois Benoît Pedretti of "small tarlouze" which "we will take care of" in the return match.

After the reaction of the Collective against homophobia (CCH), the leader apologized before adding: "We can talk to each other, tell each other things. We are men, not chicks."

The National Council of Ethics suspended him for two months from any official function, for these comments "discriminatory and threatening".

Two years later, in 2011, a banner deployed by supporters of OM - "Gang of tafiole (sic), be men" - revives the debate on homophobia in the stadiums: 5,000 euros fine against the club.

- 2013: Barton, Silva and homophobic tweets -

April 2, 2013: a series of tweets from Marseillais Joey Barton target Paris defender Thiago Silva: "fat", "transsexual", "weakling" ... The Englishman's messages are condemned by OM and PSG, as well as the Paris Foot Gay association which fights against homophobia in football.

The National Council of Ethics inflicts a two-match suspension suspended on the player.

- 2017: Balotelli and the cries of the monkey -

Bastia - Nice, January 20, 2017: the star of Nice Mario Balotelli accuses part of the Bastia public of having sent him monkey cries.

"Is racism legal in France? Or only in Bastia?" Asks the Italian of Ghanaian origin.

The disciplinary commission sanctions Bastia with a withdrawal of one point suspended and the closing of the offending stand for three matches.

In court, a spectator is sentenced to two months suspended prison sentence and 18 months stadium ban.

On February 10, 2018, traveling to Dijon, Balotelli claims to have heard monkey cries.

Neither the LFP investigation nor the criminal complaint succeeded.

- 2019: historic interruption in Dijon -

Dijon - Amiens, April 12, 2019: for the first time, an L1 match is interrupted following racist cries from the stands, targeting Amiens captain Prince Gouano.

The disciplinary commission inflicts on the Burgundy club the withdrawal of a suspended point.

- 2019: homophobic chants in Nice, match interrupted -

Nice - Marseille, August 28, 2019: the match was interrupted twelve minutes after homophobic chants and banners from Nice supporters.

More generally, the debate on homophobia in the stadiums rages in 2019, with other interruptions of matches against the backdrop of provocations of ultras towards the League (LFP).

The disciplinary commission inflicts the closure for a match of part of the offending Nicoise stand.

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