Arrests Made in Connection with Violent Incident at FC Nantes vs Olympique de Marseille Match

The investigation opened following this violence, during a Ligue 1 match between FC Nantes and Olympique de Marseille on September 1, “made it possible to identify and locate“these three men,”professionally inserted and not known to the judicial services“, who were arrested, said the public prosecutor of Nantes, Renaud Gaudeul.

They will have to answer “heads of violence in a sports venue aggravated by several circumstances, for having been committed in a meeting, partly with a weapon by destination and partly on a minor under the age of fifteen“, specifies the prosecutor.

During this match counting for the 4th day of the Championship, a couple whose six-year-old son was wearing an OM jersey had been attacked and the father had suffered a heart attack in the stands before being taken to hospital. The couple had received “spitting, insults, beers thrown in the face“the victim’s spouse wrote on X (ex-twitter), a story confirmed by several journalists present nearby.

The victim had been taken care of by the emergency services, she said, stressing that “some supporters even took selfies in front of the ambulance in which my husband was being resuscitated“.

These events had been condemned by both clubs.

2024-01-22 03:58:34
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