“I was an idiot who followed other idiots”.
“Like a sheep that I am, I followed them”… Explaining having been “carried away by the movement of the crowd”, and despite their “regrets”, five Nice supporters of the Popular South were sentenced this Friday for having invaded the lawn from the Allianz Riviera, August 22, 2021. Some indicated that they had taken to the field to “try to calm the spirits” or to “have wanted to show their disagreement”.
The Ligue 1 match scheduled that evening between OGC Nice and Olympique de Marseille had been interrupted after serious overflows.
The tension quickly mounted after a bottle was thrown from the stands at OM star Dimitri Payet.
The latter had returned projectiles.
In September, another supporter had already been sentenced to a one-year suspended prison sentence, a five-year ban on appearing in a stadium, the maximum sentence, and two years of judicial follow-up, for having attempted to attack the player.
The five OGC Nice fans judged this Friday are fined and banned for two years from entering the sports arena, for all Gym matches played at home and for those against Marseille. on the whole of French territory, with an obligation to score at half-time.
“Very bad signal sent to spectators behind their screens”
Also prosecuted for "degradation or deterioration of the property of others committed in meetings", the five defendants aged 21 to 29, already known to justice for two of them, were not convicted for these facts.
Their involvement in the destruction of armchairs and LED panels could not be demonstrated by the exploitation of the images of the meeting.
For the invasion of the playing surface, four of the supporters were sentenced to a fine of 2,000 euros, including 1,500 euros suspended.
The fifth, whose criminal record does not allow a reprieve, receives 60 day-fines at 14 euros per day, or 840 euros in all.
The judgment is more lenient than the sentences requested by the prosecutor.
Denouncing the "very bad signal sent to spectators behind their screens" and recalling that other matches had also been marred by incidents after this one, the representative of the prosecution had claimed, in addition to a fine, 3 years in prison. stadium ban, as well as three to six months suspended prison sentence or 70 hours of community service.
One of the defendants “harassed” on social networks
He had requested the heaviest sentence (six months suspended sentence) against the oldest of the defendants, born in Paris and sentenced three times in 2012, 2013 and 2014. This delivery driver, whose identity and photo had been widely shared on social networks, had presented himself to the police to file a complaint against X for harassment.
“I regret the facts, I did not think about the consequences.
I followed a movement of the crowd but only spent a few seconds on the ground.
But I've been passed off as someone I'm not.
His lawyer specified that he had to cease his professional activity for a month after the events, for his safety.
“He suffered a first social sentence”, underlined Me Manon Bracco.
OGC Nice and the Professional Football League (LFP) brought civil action.
The defendants were also ordered to pay them each one euro in damages.
The LFP lawyer denounced "this state of mind according to which supporters have at some point the desire to intervene, as if they had a role to play on the ground".
Me Benjamin Peyrelevade underlined “the exemplary nature of this match in the bad sense of the term”, and which is according to him “enlightening on the state of mind which reigns in certain stands”.
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