"This is unacceptable. It is intolerable that we can attack the players in the game by attacking them in this way," she reacted in a statement to the press, after a tweet indicating that this type of '"acts" should "result in at least the stoppage of matches".
Marseillais Dimitri Payet was hit in the face on Sunday evening by a bottle thrown by an OL supporter, causing the match to be stopped after an imbroglio between the leaders of the two clubs, the referee, the Professional Football League (LFP) and the prefecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Many incidents of the same type have erupted in Ligue 1 stadiums since the start of the season.
"The League will certainly have to clarify its regulations so that such an act of aggression on a player in the game leads to an automatic stoppage of the match," said the minister in this statement.
"Without immediate and radical awareness of the clubs to guarantee safety on the pitch and in the stands, we are going into the wall," she added.
As after the incidents at the start of the season, she said she was "in favor of individual sanctions", and said "stay (r) on this line", calling for this act to be "punished".
"These are acts which shame sport and the values which are those of sport," lamented on France 2 the deputy president of the LREM group at the National Assembly Aurore Bergé, claiming that "the clubs themselves make their arrangements "with" extremely firm measures ".
For Xavier Bertrand, candidate for the LR nomination for the presidential election, questioned on France Inter, "there must be sanctions that are taken" because "we cannot have the drift in France of this formidable sport, if popular, as we knew in England at one time ".
"It's lousy on the part of the supporters to do that" and "we cannot accept such violence", denounced on Cnews another candidate for the LR nomination, Valérie Pécresse.
To "restore calm and serenity in the stadiums", she recalled that Nicolas Sarkozy had established "for all violent supporters the stadium ban".
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