OL-OM: The author of the bottle throw having hit Payet placed in police custody… “An isolated act” according to the… – 20minutes.fr

At Parc OL,

Even in the first half of the season League 1 where incidents are multiplying like never before in the stands, no match had stopped after only five minutes of play. This is now the case after this pathetic
OL-OM, stopped provisionally on Sunday at 8:50 p.m.… then definitively at 10:41 p.m. The fault was a bottle of water thrown by a spectator located in the north bend, and having struck a
Dimitri Payet copiously insulted by all the kop, while he was about to hit the first corner of the meeting (0-0, 4th). The referee of the match Ruddy Buquet immediately returned all the players to the locker room and the man suspected of this bottle-throwing was spotted and taken out of the stadium forty minutes later by security agents.

Not without having received just before a slap from a member of the north turn kop, as Amazon Prime showed on Sunday. OL confirmed the arrest and custody of the author of the bottle throwing, while immediately evoking “an isolated act”. A version which did not encourage Ruddy Buquet, at the end of an interminable imbroglio behind the scenes, to resume the meeting, even if the announcer indicated at the stadium the opposite at 10:05 pm. In a press conference, Jean-Michel Aulas mentioned “a regrettable incident”, while praising the responsiveness of his club.

“There was no way this incident would be repeated”

“We have 350 cameras in the stadium, which makes it possible to identify any troublemaker,” recalls the Lyon president. He was immediately intercepted, while in previous cases elsewhere, the organizers usually do not like to go find the culprit. I can assure you that Lyon is really exemplary in terms of safety. On the public road there are a lot of uncontrollable people. There, it is an asshole who throws a bottle, it was unfortunately unpredictable. “

? EXCLUDED: Insults and projectile throwing at Payet seen from the stands ? #OLOM pic.twitter.com/mhRG7d7GGb

– PiedsCarrés (@PiedsCarres) November 21, 2021

What was less so later was that Jean-Michel Aulas tried to resume the match, with a warm-up of its players from 10:10 pm, before a resumption of this shock which will never take place. “There was no chance that this incident would be repeated afterwards and there was no stadium invasion, for example,” he insisted after the “match”. This was not enough to convince Ruddy Buquet.