It’s a Moselle Football Cup final which will be remembered. But not for his sporting intentions. On June 10, 2018, in Algrange, the match between FC Guénange and AS Bettborn-Hellering was interrupted with losses and a crash at half-time. In question, the actions coming from part of the supporters of Guénange , who saw fit to enter the stadium equipped with mortar type firecrackers and smoke. And also to make use of it.
In addition to burying the event (the final will be replayed in Longeville-lès-Saint-Avold a month and a half later), the overflows left three injured. Two of them, affected in the eardrum and at the level of an elbow, will file a complaint.
The testimonies, photos and complaints will help identify at least three particularly virulent agitators. Among them, the supposed leader, a man from Guénange aged 28 at the time of the events, was confused by District officials present that day. In the process, he was suspended from the league for three years and had to give up his duties as an educator for young people under 16. He has been going around in circles ever since.
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“It’s not me …”
This same man has just been definitively fixed on his fate, this Tuesday at the bar of the criminal court of Thionville. Throughout the hearing, this fellow with the voice that carries continued to deny the elements collected against him. “The only thing I did was to recover a torch at some point …” he defended himself, believing he had been wrongly identified as the instigator of the violence. His lawyer went further, citing an investigation “not thorough enough […] No one could say where the firecrackers came from. In their depositions, even the complainants say they did not see where the jets came from, ”insisted Mr. Tiberi.
The defense worked: the defendant got away with an acquittal for the acts of violence but left sentenced to 2 months in prison suspended for the prohibited use of firecrackers within a stadium.
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