Olympique de Marseille contests the suspension imposed on Dimitri Payet, sanctioned following the use of images from Prime Video.
Olympique de Marseille flies to the aid of Dimitri Payet. Guilty of having slapped Yannick Cahuzac during a scuffle during the last Lens-OM (2-1), the Marseille No. 10 has been suspended for three firm matchesand will miss the end of the season with his club.
Problem, OM considers that the procedure did not take place in a normal way. According to the club led by Pablo Longoria, this incident had been judged by the VAR, and it was then because of images revealed by Prime Video that Payet was sanctioned by the Disciplinary Committee. Can we judge the same gesture twice? In French law, theoretically not. And this is OM’s main argument.
« This sanction imposed on our player was unfortunately pronounced in defiance of the basic principles of procedure and the disciplinary regulations of the LFP. In application of the Video Assistance Protocol for Arbitration (VAR), the entire contentious sequence was viewed and checked on the spot by the video referee, without it giving rise to a sanction. This decision was final and the Disciplinary Committee could not therefore re-judge it a posteriori. develops OM in a press release.
The Olympian club promises to file an appeal “against this decision which is questionable on a procedural level and which risks establishing case law on the application of sanctions a posteriori. »
