Europe 1 with AFP 12:07 p.m., November 23, 2021

After a meeting Tuesday with the authorities of French football, the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin announced that measures will be proposed in two weeks to improve security in the stadiums. A statement that comes two days after the new incidents that occurred during a Ligue 1 match on Sunday between Lyon and Marseille.

Two weeks to decide. Measures to improve security in the stadiums will be proposed "in 15 days", announced the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin after a meeting Tuesday with the authorities of French football, two days after new incidents occurred during the Lyon-match. Marseilles. "We have agreed to work together on four subjects", explained the Minister of the Interior after a meeting in Beauvau with the football authorities, several club presidents as well as the Ministers of Justice Eric Dupont- Moretti and Sports Roxana Maracineanu.

"The first is that (...) of the ban on stadiums and responses. The question of securing the stadiums, video-protection cameras and nets," detailed Gerald Darmanin.

This new "task force" will also work on "the issue of private security since we must improve the control of access to stadiums", according to the minister.

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"And then finally, arguably the most important question on Sunday, the decision-making process of who stops a match. How do you stop a match? What responsibility for stopping this match? Enter, of course, the essential role of the referee, ( to which) we are all extremely attentive, and the role, also, of the prefect, since there is a question of public order which arises ", he added.

On Sunday, Marseille captain Dimitri Payet received a plastic water bottle on his head when taking a corner at the Stade de Lyon after only four minutes of play. The decision not to resume the match was taken after nearly two hours of procrastination lead to great confusion.

"We therefore agreed to work very quickly and in 15 days, in the same format, to meet again in order to make proposals to the Prime Minister and the governing bodies of football," added the Minister of the Interior.