It was ultimately in the form of a collective action that the French arbitrators decided to bring their anger to court. According to our information, the 111 men and women officiating in Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 are preparing to file a defamation complaint against Pablo Longoria.
Sunday, the day after the grotesque corruption charges carried by the president of Olympique de Marseille in Auxerre, Jérôme Brisard said that the 19 main L1 referees would each seize the prosecutor of their region.
For the sake of simplicity, and under the leadership of the referees’ union, SAFE, only one request is about to be finalized. As a reminder, an accused sentenced for public defamation risks up to 12,000 euros fine.
For his part, Jérémy Stinat, the referee in command on Saturday evening for Aja-OM, has already filed a complaint against X after having found the tires of his vehicles punctured at his home, in the Landes. “As it stands”, the prosecution did not find a “proven link” with its profession.
In the meantime, Pablo Longoria will be auditioned in late Wednesday afternoon by the disciplinary committee of the Professional Football League. He risks very large, despite the apologies made this Monday. “I want to say that there is no corruption in French football,” admitted the leader to AFP, saying that the form of his anger access on Saturday “was not appropriate” but s ‘Explained by “many arbitral decisions on which (he) considers that OM has been disadvantaged”.
A sanction between three games and six months of suspension
The range of punishments is wide enough for those who will be explained in videoconference: three suspension matches in the event of “excessive or moved” behavior, four in the event of “injuring behavior” … more serious, a “coarse behavior or Abjurious “can cause up to 12 suspension matches and” intimidating or threatening “behavior of six months of suspension.
These sanctions involve a lawn prohibition but also of the exercise of its functions within the representative bodies. He should therefore absent from the LFP board of directors, which is to meet Thursday in the midst of TV rights crisis.
The experienced Stéphanie Freppart was also designated to arbitrate the pressure match between Nantes and Marseille on Sunday.