Guest of After Foot this Monday on RMC, Karine Shebabo, the lawyer for Lucas Buades, took stock of the attack suffered by the midfielder of Rodez, Friday in Bordeaux, during the 38th day of Ligue 2. A supporter entered the field to jostle him, causing the game to be stopped.
He hasn’t recovered yet. Far from there. Neither physically nor psychologically. Three days after his attack by a Bordeaux supporter on the last day of Ligue 2, Lucas Buades, the Rodez midfielder, is going through difficult times. This is what his lawyer, Karine Shebabo, said during his visit to After Foot on Monday on RMC.
“He’s not doing very well, for several reasons. First, because he was the victim of a double infraction, when he had only scored a goal and celebrated it, she explained. So already there is a problem of security and violence that overflows the enclosure of the match. And then because we have reactions afterwards, an outpouring of hatred, a lot of threats. Death threats, threats of violence on him and his entourage, but also the questioning of what he has experienced. He had a blow to the larynx, so it was a laryngeal trauma that made him fall to the ground. He fell on left temple and there was traumatic amnesia.”
“We don’t know if he lost consciousness”
“The doctors who saw him considered that it was serious enough for him not to resume the match. And then my client’s situation is evolving. We see everywhere that he would only have one day of recovery. “ITT. That we will know on the day of the judgment because this situation is evolving. And above all, it was not he who decided to stop the match. There was a whole protocol that was respected and that is the referee who decides to stop the match definitively.”
Relaunched on this subject, Lucas Buades’ lawyer gave more details on the circumstances of his attack at Matmut Atlantique, which led to the stoppage of the meeting: “He is pushed at the level of the larynx, it takes his breath away and he falls. At that moment, he has a dizziness. We don’t know if he hasn’t lost consciousness for a minute. In any case, he had post-traumatic amnesia, that’s for sure And that’s when the commotion took place, it’s the fall in fact.(…) When he fell on the ground, there was apparently a homemade or agricultural bomb that fell next to him of him. So there was a second trauma and that’s when it was decided to evacuate him to the locker room.”
“I would have liked a phone call from Bordeaux”
“A first doctor saw him, then a second, and they were the ones who were with him for hours to see how the situation was, how he was doing, she continued. that’s where the trouble came from, thinking that at first we were going to take him to the hospital, then we finally decided not to move him so that he remained under observation and that we see his condition. But above all, I believe that there was a great disorganization linked to this act of violence which was not at all anticipated and not at all foreseeable.
Me Shebabo then responded to critics of Lucas Buades, who accuse him of having exaggerated his injury when he was pushed by the Girondins supporter who came down from the stands: “My client was hit, it was obvious. We now trying to make the images say another reality. The match report speaks well of an aggression of a player, of a security which is threatened. There is no debate on that. What I would have liked from the home club, maybe it’s first a phone call to my client to apologize, to know how he is doing. I would still have appreciated. I would have thought it was fair play, that it was sport.”
The file under investigation by the Disciplinary Committee
In the meantime, Lucas Buades has decided to take legal action in this case. “The complaint has already taken place, on the part of my client but also of his club, specified his lawyer. I understood that the Bordeaux club was also going to file a complaint. The perpetrator was cited in correctional for the end of November so there will be a trial and I really hope that this kind of behavior will be punished as it should be.”
The Disciplinary Committee of the Professional Football League put the case under investigation on Monday, as required by its regulations. A decision will be made on June 12. Bordeaux hope to be able to play this game again as soon as possible as their players continue to train in order to stay sharp before they can go on vacation. Just like those of Rodez. The outcome of this meeting can be decisive in the race for promotion and/or maintenance in L2.