Until then in full effervescence of a derby at the Stadium, in Toulouse, the evening of Monday December 13, 2021 tipped into the unacceptable. When, a few minutes after Rodez equalized (goal against Diakité in the 84th minute), Ruthenian goalkeeper Lionel Mpasi was the victim of a racist insult (“dirty monkey”), coming from a supporter present in the kop of the Violets.
The individual fled. The match was briefly stopped by the referee before coming to an end. The president of the Haut-Garonne club “excuse“in the name of his institution”with the player“, shared the CCTV tapes with the police and then filed a complaint against X for Téfécé. What the Franco-Congolese doorman did not wish to do.
About a month later, the LFP Disciplinary Committee decided to sentence Toulouse to a suspended withdrawal point.
The author has still not been identified.
And almost twenty weeks after the events, where is the investigation of the police? Stalled, according to sources familiar with the matter, since the alleged perpetrator has still not been identified. Her insult, she, “did a lot of harm” to Lionel Mpasi, according to what the latter had confided in a press release published the next day. This terrible memory should reappear on Monday (8:45 p.m.), during the return match at Paul-Lignon, when the goalkeeper is already going through a period difficult.
Because this Rodez – Toulouse will also be the meeting after, of the one which saw, in Nîmes (3-2) on April 23, his missed clearance causing a cruel defeat to his team. “I’m disappointed for him but, at some point, you have to be able to do the right thing, in the right place, at the right time.“, pointed out Laurent Peyrelade in the Gard. Especially since the last rampart recently caused the blood and gold to lose more than one point, by scoring against his camp, following a hand fault, during the reception of Niort (1-1), at the beginning of the month.
Enough to prevent the Raf from getting out of its negative series, now increased to 18 matches without success, including nine defeats. A second in a row, Monday, could even allow the 19th, Dunkirk, to return to equal points two days before the end of the season.
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