Europe 1 with AFP 10:47 a.m., December 16, 2021, modified at 10:52 a.m., December 16, 2021
A Ligue 1 or Ligue 2 match will be "systematically and permanently interrupted" when a player or a referee is injured by a projectile launched from the stands, announces the government. The sale and carrying of plastic bottles will be banned in football stadiums "no later than July 1, 2022".
A Ligue 1 or Ligue 2 match will be "systematically and definitively interrupted" when a player or a referee is injured by a projectile launched from the stands, the government announced on Thursday after a meeting with representatives of the French football. In the event of an incident in a stadium, a crisis unit not including the presidents of the clubs concerned will have to decide in 30 minutes maximum on the fate of the meeting, specifies a press release signed by the ministers Gérald Darmanin (Interior), Roxana Maracineanu ( Sports) and Éric Dupond-Moretti (Justice).
The executive trio gathered Thursday morning the president of the Professional Football League (LFP), Vincent Labrune, the boss of the French Football Federation (FFF), Noël le Graët, as well as representatives of the refereeing body, representatives of French clubs and several prefects.
It was to unveil the conclusions of the working groups launched on November 23, two days after the interruption of the Lyon-Marseille meeting, during which Marseille captain Dimitri Payet was hit in the head by a bottle of water. plastic thrown from the stands.
Plastic bottles banned in July 2022
In this regard, the government has announced that the sale and carrying of plastic bottles will be banned in football stadiums "no later than July 1, 2022". Regarding stadium bans, the participants in the inter-ministerial meeting judged that the current system was "sufficient", but that it could still be "better applied".
"In the medium term, a reflection will be carried out for the creation of a fixed tort fine (AFD), that is to say a penal sanction which is pronounced, outside a trial, by a police officer, a gendarme or an authorized public official "in order to suppress" the introduction, possession and use of rockets or fireworks of any kind in a sports arena ", it is specified.
In addition, Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 clubs must all have "anti-projection safety devices", for example safety nets, from the 2022-2023 season, which can be installed for certain matches on the recommendation of the prefects.