While the LFP has decided to devote this football weekend to fight against racism and anti-Semitism, on the occasion of the 27th day of Ligue 1, another discrimination was highlighted by the Collectif Rouge Direct to fight homophobia on Saturday. In a tweet published on Saturday, we hear the Lille kop sing a homophobic chant against their Lens rival during the derby played Friday evening on the lawn of the Pierre-Mauroy stadium.
“The Lensois are fags, and poor idiots”, echoed the supporters of the Mastiffs, without the referee intervening to stop the match. “A usual homophobic chant, totally predictable, which did not give rise to the match stopping procedure provided for by the regulations and desired by the Minister of Sports, from whom we are awaiting the reaction”, reacted to RMC the collective Direct Red.
He also fears “manifestations of homophobia” during the OM-PSG match on Sunday evening at the Vélodrome stadium. According to our colleagues from RMC Sport, the match delegate did not note anything in his end-of-match report and the clubs did not report these chants either.
When will the matches stop?
The start of the season was marked by similar homophobic chants in several Ligue 1 stadiums, including the Parc des Princes during the first PSG-OM Classic last September. An event which pushed the Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra to call for matches to be stopped in such circumstances.
A few weeks later, it was Vincent Labrune, the president of the LFP, who made his wish. “On homophobia, we are ready to go as far as possible. It’s not even that it annoys me, it drives me crazy, he declared at the time. Questions related to homophobia drive me crazy. We must systematically interrupt the meeting, it seems to me a good measure to mark the occasion. » One day perhaps, but it seems that it has not yet come.