An investigation was opened after the incidents which led to the interruption of the Nice-OM match on Sunday evening, the Nice prosecutor's office told AFP on Monday.
"An investigation is underway, but there is no custody" at this stage, said the prosecution.
The match counting for the third day of Ligue 1 was stopped an hour and a half, after supporters invaded the pitch following an incident that ignited the match: yet another plastic bottle thrown at Dimitri Payet, which the latter returned to the rostrum.
A security cordon of stewards, dressed in yellow vests, tried to stop the supporters, but blows were exchanged in different parts of the field, in a scrimmage between players of the two teams, supporters and stewards.
Nice led 1-0, but the match did not end: after 90 minutes of procrastination, the meeting was definitively stopped when the referee noticed the absence of the Marseillais.
The words of the president 𝗣𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗼 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮 following the incidents that occurred this evening at the Allianz Riviera.
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- Olympique de Marseille (@OM_Officiel) August 22, 2021
“The League (LFP) has decided to resume the match.
We decided for the safety of our players, who were attacked during the invasion of the field, not to resume because the safety of our players was not guaranteed ”, explained the president of OM, Pablo Longoria. , in a video sent to the media.
Nice wanted to resume the game.
“I know very well that the game could have resumed.
I was convinced that it would go very well ”, declared for his part the President of Nice Jean-Pierre Rivère.
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