On April 16, a football match between the under -17s of FC Langon and the Bordeaux stadium degenerated.
According to information from Republican Sud-Gironde confirmed at Figarothe meeting ended on scenes of impressive violence.
On Wednesday, April 16, on behalf of the quarter -finals of the Gironde U17 Cup (under 17), the Langonnais football club received the Bordeaux stadium. While visitors led 2 goals to 1, everything changed in the second half. The Langonnais obtained a penalty to return to the game … The player of the locals transformed it. It was there that the Bordeaux goalkeeper came to kick him while the scorer celebrated his goal, as we can see on a video published by The South Gironde Republican. The referee who released a red card very contested by the players and the Bordeaux staff, was then threatened and verbally attacking. No longer felt safe, the latter decided to stop the meeting.
As the actors returned to the locker room, the incidents continued. One of the Langon educators was “Physically assaulted by a player from the Bordeaux stadium”which will earn him a five -day ITT. A premises player would have been threatened with a knife by an opponent. Two complaints were filed, one by the player, the other by the educator. Several Bordeaux players have denounced racist comments coming from the Langonnais public.
At first, on Thursday, April 17, the Gironde district disciplinary committee decided to replay the game, with two additional referees to ensure the security and the smooth running of the match. Finally, a few days later, she agreed to the Langon club, appointed winner of the match.
“Saving of violence”
Facts that recall others since the start of the year in Gironde. On February 23, a women’s football match between the teams of the under -18s of Libourne and Cenon had shot violent altercations at the final whistle. At the beginning of March, during a departmental level match, in Gradignan (Gironde), around thirty spectators had invaded the field after the start of a fight between two players. The captain of one of the two teams had been seriously injured.
Facing a “Spring of violence”the New Aquitaine Regional League launched an appeal to the prefect in early March. “”There is not a week without a sports meeting being tarnished by physical and/or verbal assaults, whether on the playing surface or in its surroundings“Wrote in a press release his president and former defender of the Girondins de Bordeaux François Grenet. The manager notably demanded a “Large regional consultationOn this subject.
