A week after similar events in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, a young referee was violently attacked this Saturday in Hauts-de-France, after a match in the under-17 category and had to be taken to hospital.
The facts took place in Salouël, in the Somme. Opposed to Albert, the local club lost on its ground (0-1). If the match went rather well as a whole, the situation degenerated at the final whistle. When leaving the lawn and joining the locker room, the 18-year-old official was attacked by the parents of one of the Salouël players. Came with their dog, they copiously insulted the young man. Taking advantage of the situation, they were imitated by their son.
The referee then did not hesitate and decided to issue a red card against the Salouël player. The insults then intensified before he was beaten up by the brother of the offending player. “I was pushed and hit in the head by the brother of the expelled child. I fell head first on the ground, I got hit on the ground and another Salouël player took advantage of the situation to lynch me as well,” he said in reported comments. by “le 11 amiénois”.
Rescued by players and managers of the visiting team, he was taken to hospital after the intervention of the police who went there. And the young referee suffers from multiple injuries: a head injury, a head injury in the forehead and a dermabrasion in the right cervical area seven centimeters high.
If he hopes “from now on that these people will be sanctioned”, the Salouël club has apologized to him and asked the District of the Somme that the attackers, who risk a suspension of license for a period of five years, “be suspended from license for a certain period of time”.
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In any case, the president did not wait to impose sanctions. “We do not procrastinate with this kind of attitude and I made the decision to expel them. It’s intolerable. We are not an evil or rogue club, we have never behaved like this and it is not today that it will start. It is an isolated act,” he said. For his part, the referee lodged a complaint and he can count on the support of Salouël.
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