Saint-Etienne - Lyon: FFF condemns "unbearable aggression" on the assistant referee

National authorities reacted in a statement following the events that took place this Sunday during the Ligue 1 derby.

If the investigation is under way at the police station in Saint-Etienne in the Loire, the referee of touch wounded Sunday night in a league 1 match filed a complaint this Monday in Nîmes. Mehdi Rahmouni, 38 years old, was the referee of touch yesterday Sunday, during the meeting between Saint-Etienne and Olympique Lyonnais (2-1). A tensioned derby who was arrested for many minutes after the referee of touch was wounded by a projectile launched …

A 28-year-old AS Saint-Etienne (L1) supporter, suspected of throwing a coin on the head of a key-arbitrator during the derby against the Lyon Olympique on Sunday night, was still on guard at...

The FFF is the first to come out of the woods. It has risen against the "unbearable aggression" suffered by Mehdi Rahmouni, the assistant referee during the derby ASSE - OL. We were waiting for the first official reaction, it intervenes through the FFF. The French Football Federation published on Sunday late in the evening a [...] The article The FFF takes the defense of the assistant referee after ASSE - OL (2-1) appeared first on Olympique & L…