Because OL attacked, “caught in the euphoria”

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By: Manu Tournoux

Member of a group of OM supporters, a young man was sentenced Thursday in connection with the attack on the OL bus on October 29.

Almost a month after the serious incidents on the sidelines of OM-OL on October 29 (10th day of Ligue 1), a Marseille supporter was sentenced Thursday morning by the Marseille Criminal Court.

This 22-year-old man, member of the MTP group (Marseille Trop Puissant), received a four-month suspended prison sentence and a three-year stadium ban, indicate Provence And The Team.

The individual, in pre-trial detention for 24 days at Baumettes prison, had participated in the attack on the Olympique Lyonnais bus near the Vélodrome stadium. He admitted to having thrown a stone towards the OL vehicle, without reaching it.

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“I picked up a stone thrown by the Lyonnais and I threw it back, he declared at the hearing, quoted by Provence. I was caught up in the euphoria. If I had hurt someone, I would have had it on my conscience for the rest of my life. »

Fabio Grosso, the Italian coach of Les Gones, was seriously injured in the face after the bus in which he was with his players and staff was stoned.

The meeting was canceled then postponed to December 6 but it is on this date that the FFF disciplinary committee will make its decision after the appeal lodged by OL.

It can be assumed that the match will find a place in the 2024 calendar.

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