The football clubs of Montpellier and Clermont have each decided, separately, to file a complaint. Sunday, at the Mosson stadium, a firecracker fell a few centimeters from the feet of Auvergne goalkeeper Mory Diaw, causing the goalkeeper to be taken out on a stretcher. The match, counting for the eighth day of Ligue 1, was definitively stopped.
“Stunned by the events which we condemn with the greatest firmness”, the MHSC filed a complaint by name against the two people placed in police custody in this case. A 24-year-old man, suspected of having thrown the firecracker onto the pitch from the Etang de Thau stand. And another aged 22, presented as the one who provided him with this piece of pyrotechnics.
Goalkeeper Mory Diaw was able to join his selection
“Today, Clermont Foot 63 is launching an appeal to the various players in the world of football to work together and find lasting solutions to eradicate this type of behavior within our stadiums,” says on his side the Auvergne club. The LFP disciplinary committee must study these facts on Wednesday. The file will immediately be put under investigation. But provisional sanctions could already be taken.
Called up with Senegal, Mory Diaw, for his part, was able to join his selection. “After carrying out additional examinations this morning, Mory Diaw was authorized by Clermont Foot 63 to respond favorably to the summons of the Senegalese selection,” specifies the Auvergne club. “We are sincerely relieved [qu’il] has not been injured and that he can honor his call-up to the selection”, underlines the MHSC.
“We are educated, we are not here to throw something at people. »
While supporters denounced a simulation by the goalkeeper in order to stop the match, the president of the MHSC sent them back to the ropes after the match. “That’s not the question. We don’t have to go on the pitch like in Bordeaux, we don’t have to throw things at anyone. People can say whatever they want, but it’s just human respect. We don’t have to throw something from the depths of the stand at a player, whether he’s from Clermont, Montpellier or anywhere. We are educated, we are not here to throw something at people. »