Football club sanctioned for communitarianism: Sète Olympique FC suspended from competition as a precautionary measure

Arbitres et clubs adverses ont été prévenus de l’annulation des rencontres prévues ce week-end. PHOTO D'ILLUSTRATION

INFO MIDI LIBRE – La Fédération Française de Football (FFF) vient de décider de suspendre à titre conservatoire le Sète Olympique FC de toute compétition, annulant donc les matchs prévus ce week-end des 27 et 28 avril.

After the administrative sanction, the sporting sanction. According to our information, the Sète Olympique Football Club has just been suspended as a precautionary measure from any official competition by the French Football Federation. This decision follows a report highlighting communitarian and religious behavior within the club, and the decision of Hérault prefect François-Xavier Lauch to withdraw Sète Olympique FC's association approval sporty.

No match until further notice

In the process, the City of Sète confirmed the suspension of payment of its annual subsidy and the end of the provision of municipal infrastructure as of this weekend. The matches of the two Sète Olympique teams, scheduled for Saturday in Sète and Sunday in Lavérune, are therefore canceled, as the Hérault football district confirmed to us. The opposing teams have been warned and the referees will not be summoned.

The Sète club's next match should be played before the Montpellier administrative court on May 16. The association, which completely refutes the accusations, filed an appeal against the order of the prefect of Hérault.