2023-10-02 12:06:00
Benoît Castanedo, the president of the FLHV, discusses the serious incidents of Sunday, in Coursan, in Regional 1 of rugby union, which required the call to the firefighters and the police.
So what happened in Coursan?
The match was played in a relatively calm climate since only two yellow and white cards were distributed due to technical fouls. The score was 5-3 in the 75th minute, the fate of the match might have gone either way. At the end of the match, the players stayed a little longer on the pitch for the coach’s debriefing and there, security invited us to exit through the most exposed gate. Namely that the players had to walk along the stands to enter the locker room.
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Et?
And there was an outpouring of hatred, racist insults, and violence. Part of the squad was already in the locker room and around ten players were attacked by 80 supporters, most of them drunk. I never saw that. They were trampling the guys from my house, 10 to 1. Kader Boulhimas, one of the coaches, tried to calm everyone down and took hits from behind. When he arrived, his nose and teeth were broken. And the local players who prevented ours stuck in the locker room from going to help our friends. Three players and the coach left by ambulance to Narbonne hospital.
What are you going to do now?
File a complaint for racist insults, violence in meetings… I have been president for eleven years and I am still shocked as I speak to you. We are 45 days into ITT and 10 elements on the side. We don’t even know if we will be able to host Revel on Sunday. I repeat myself but for the first time, I felt hatred. I’m tired of hearing that the FLHV is the neighborhood that’s on the move. In the team, there is a soldier, two representatives of the police, business leaders… 98% of the senior licensees have a permanent job. We must stop with the amalgamations and this primary racism. A milestone has been reached and I do not want it to go unpunished.
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