Six months in prison against the supporter who scored a goal at the Vélodrome

Six months in prison. This is the condemnation pronounced on Tuesday against the supporter who entered the lawn of the Vélodrome stadium in Marseille on Sunday and scored a goal during the match between OM and OGC Nice.

He accepted the sentence proposed by the Marseille public prosecutor’s office to three months in prison for this intrusion on the ground and the partial revocation of up to three months of a previous six-month suspended prison sentence pronounced in November 2021.

Prohibited from stadium

This 21-year-old Turkish facade maker was sentenced according to the procedure of prior recognition of guilt (plead guilty) upon leaving police custody. The court also sentenced him to a stadium ban for three years.

The young man was cheered after his goal in the Nice cages by the public at the Vélodrome stadium who then booed the ten stewards who rushed on him and took him out of the field unceremoniously.

Even if the sanction was accepted by his client, Me Pascal Luongo nevertheless pointed to the “relative severity of the sentence proposed by the prosecution for what was only a good-natured act, a stroke of madness as he recognized himself before the prosecutor”.