Three men, aged 21, 49 and 56, will appear on January 22 before the Nantes criminal court following violence committed against an OM supporter family at the Beaujoire stadium on September 1 , announced the prosecution on Thursday January 10 evening. 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, the Nantes public prosecutor, Renaud Gaudeul, told the press.
They will have to answer for “counts 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 against a minor aged under fifteen,” specifies the prosecutor. “The prosecution requested placement under judicial supervision including in particular a ban on entering a sports venue. The decisions of the judge of freedoms and detention are expected late in the evening on Thursday, explains Renaud Gaudeul.
During this match counting for the 4th day of the Championship, a couple whose six-year-old son was wearing an OM jersey was attacked and the father suffered a heart attack in the stands before being taken to hospital. The couple had received “spitting, insults, beers thrown in their faces,” the victim’s partner 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 were condemned by both clubs.
