It was to be a festive evening at the Etrat training center, where all the young apprentice footballers from Saint-Etienne were gathered to watch the Coupe de France final between ASSE and PSG (1-0 success for the Parisians) on Friday. latest. If there was no exploit at the Stade de France, the TV night turned into very serious slippages as revealed by our colleagues from the Team.
Some of the older players in the center took advantage of the event to hazel the latest arrivals. But the game quickly turned to an outburst of violence. Two underage adolescents were severely beaten.
Internal investigation
Facts qualified as “unacceptable” and “inappropriate acts and contrary to the values enshrined in its sports project of excellence” by the club in the press release released this Saturday evening.
ASSE, which does not deny the reality of this dramatic episode which tarnishes the reputation of its training center ranked 4th in France, carried out an internal investigation after the victims’ tongues were released.
Two layoffs, one temporary exclusion
Also according to the same statement, “two residents were summoned for an interview prior to possible sanction and laid off as a precaution. A third was subject to temporary exclusion”.
Faced with the gravity of the facts, ASSE lodged a complaint against X.
The investigation was entrusted to the search brigade of the Saint-Etienne gendarmerie. Last year, a case of violence also rocked the Girondins de Bordeaux club, three players having hit one of their comrade.