French second division game halted over homophobic chanting
Posted August 16, 2019 7:00 am
NANCY, France (AP) - French sports minister Roxana Maracineanu has congratulated a referee for interrupting a French second division game due to apparent homophobic chants from fans.
Mehdi Mokhtari stopped the game on Friday between Nancy and Le Mans for about a minute after an initial appeal made over the speakers to stop the chants failed to have an effect at Nancy's Marcel Picot Stadium. The game continued shortly afterward.
"It's a first. And a last, I hope," Maracineanu wrote on Twitter.
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