Faced with repetitions of homophobic chants in stadiums, Sports Minister Gil Avérous announced mandatory nominative ticketing for matches in Paris, Marseille and Lyon.
Published on 10/24/2024 10:26 p.m.
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Faced with the persistence of homophobic chants and violence during football matches, particularly those of PSG, the authorities have announced measures. (OLIVIER LEJEUNE / LP / MAXPPP)
“The minister pulled out all the stops, that’s good, that’s positive! But then we’ll have to apply it” [les sanctions]and that’s more complicated”estimates Yoann Lemaire, president of the Foot Ensemble association, which fights against homophobia in football. He was invited on Thursday October 24 on franceinfo when the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau brought together representatives of footballing authorities in the afternoon, to find new ways of reacting in the event of homophobic chants in the stands. In the process, the Minister of Sports announced that he would “sign a decree” by December 31 to “activate nominative ticketing” for Olympique Lyonnais, Olympique de Marseille and PSG.
According to the president of the Foot Ensemble association, making tickets for the matches of three football clubs nominative is a “good thing”. But above all it is necessary “go find the leaders” who launch homophobic chants from the stands, and do more on “awareness”an aspect which is too often neglected by Paris Saint-Germain, which does not hold workshops against homophobia.
“It’s starting to get painful.”he blurted out while the problem is recurring in the PSG stands, “the club must realize that they must be exemplary, and that there is a real problem”. “We are counting on this minister who seems committed and courageous, we will see from Sunday if the State is capable of reacting quickly to remove the madmen who shout songs, who are violent or who carry out racist acts.”
