a new complaint filed against DAZN and the LFP for homophobic insults – Libération

Again. A new complaint has been filed against the streaming platform and broadcaster of Ligue 1, DAZN, for “insults and incitement to homophobic hatred” after chants chanted during matches this weekend, the lawyer announced this Monday, October 28 of the Stop Homophobia association. “Stop Homophobia, in partnership with the Collectif Rouge Direct, is filing a complaint today before the Paris public prosecutor and before Arcom (audiovisual and digital regulatory authority, editor’s note), for insults and incitement to homophobic hatred against DAZN and the LFP”the professional football league, indicates Me Étienne Deshoulières.

The complaint from the two associations targets “songs heard during Angers-Saint Etienne matches” and OM-PSG “during the weekend of October 26-27, 2024”he specifies in a press release. “To the extent that the publishing director of DAZN offers the rebroadcast of football matches on its platform, it is responsible for the insults and public provocations to homophobic hatred or violence due to the rebroadcast of the songs on this platform”estimates the lawyer.

The matches were not stopped

Rouge direct, a collective which campaigns against homophobia in football, shared on its social networks a video in which we hear, in the 69th minute of the “Clasico” between Marseille and Paris, a song taken up by some of the Marseille supporters who said: “We must kill these Parisian fags, we must kill them, we must kill them.” He did the same with a video showing a song sung by Saint-Etienne supporters during the match between Angers and Saint-Etienne which said: “We are the Stéphanois. Oh Lyons, bunch of fags. To see our team win. We’re going to fuck you all.” Contrary to what the new Minister of Sports, Gil Avérous, had promised, none of these matches was stopped despite the chants.

Contacted by LiberationRouge Direct announces that a complaint will be systematically filed against DAZN if matches where homophobic chants were uttered are still available in replay.

The complaint filed this Monday comes just a few days after the filing of a first complaint targeting homophobic chants chanted at the end of the PSG-Strasbourg match at the Parc des Princes on October 19. An investigation has since been opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office and “two of the ringleaders” have been “identified”. Following the first complaint, DAZN assured “take strict care, in compliance with the law, not to broadcast on its platform passages containing such comments”.

In his press release, Me Etienne Deshoulières specifies that he has “received firm instructions from Stop Homophobia to file a complaint after each homophobic chant heard in football stadiums”.