Many measures were announced on Thursday by the government to fight against violence in French stadiums.
Among the objectives: to attack faulty “individual behaviors” rather than all supporters.
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No less than three ministries proposed solutions this Thursday morning to try to cure the violent spasms which shake French football, after a meeting with club presidents, representatives of referees, the LFP and the FFF.
"The overall impression is rather positive", judges Nicolas Hourcade, associate professor of social sciences at the École Centrale de Lyon and member of the National Supporterism Authority.
From now on, a match will be “systematically and definitively interrupted” when a player or a referee is injured by a projectile launched from the stands.
In the event of an incident in a stadium, a crisis unit will have to decide in 30 minutes maximum on the fate of the meeting.
"There is a desire to coordinate all the players, and the recognition that it is the State which must steer the process," says Nicolas Hourcade.
We do not have major media measures, but rather the will to better apply the mechanisms that already exist and to supplement them with measures that appear pragmatic and appropriate.
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To respond to the overflows observed in the stadiums, and lastly the throwing of a bottle at Dimitri Payet at the Parc OL, the Ministry of the Interior claims to want to attack "individual behavior" rather than the "mass" supporters.
"Travel authorization must be the norm"
In order to better identify the black sheep, the Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 clubs will have to have an efficient video protection system, called to undergo an audit by the end of the season. The change of paradigm, if the stewardship follows, seems remarkable, as the temptation is often great in France to deal with the slightest problem with chisels, with very frequent recourse to total or partial closed doors, as well as travel bans. .
"The prefects however received a circular in November 2019, reiterated in September 2021, to say that the authorization to travel must be the norm and that the ban had to be decided in an exceptional way, when it is really proportionate to the seriousness of the situation, continues Nicolas Hourcade.
However, we have seen recently that this was an easy solution and that it prevented many supporters who do not pose a problem to be able to follow their team.
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According to figures from the National Division for the Fight against Hooliganism (DNLH), 104 people are currently banned from stadiums - one third of administrative bans, two thirds of judicial bans - and 331 are subject to a commercial ban of stadium, pronounced by the clubs. "It is not necessarily the role of clubs to have police activities," said the sociologist. The prohibitions which can give rise to the marking and to a real control, they are those pronounced by the justice or the prefect. "
The authorities are working on the creation of a fixed tort fine (AFD), issued by a gendarme or a police officer and the amount of which remains to be fixed, to punish the introduction of smoke or other similar object in a sports arena.
This measure will avoid cluttering the courts, even if it is accompanied by an entry in the criminal record.
Doubts about the nominative ticket office
Another project under study: the establishment of a nominative ticket office in clubs, presented as a potential "absolute weapon" by the Ministry of the Interior.
A working group on the subject is due to deliver its conclusions within six months.
Nicolas Hourcade does not hide his doubts about its feasibility: “For it to be effective, it would be necessary to control the identity of each spectator.
When you have tens of thousands of people, that means putting in place oversized control systems and mobilizing the police.
But the police don't just have that to do.
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Messages on match tickets
Still on the ticket side, messages reminding fans of what the supporters risk in the event of an offense must be included, but also be projected on the giant screens of the stadiums.
These preventive measures will support other more concrete ones, such as the ban on plastic bottles in sports grounds or the obligation for clubs to have anti-intrusion and anti-projection devices, to be deployed during so-called matches. "Sensitive".
The second part of the season will show whether the measures decreed this Thursday pacify French football.
Unless the Omicron variant, and the threat it poses to the reception of the public, especially during sporting events, is responsible for temporarily solving the problem.
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