Alexiou: “Planned by Lanois to punish AEK” – The French referee is absent from the trial

The Super League sports referee was excused on Friday morning for about an hour, on Friday morning the AEKabout the incident with the president of KED Stéphane Lanoisbefore the start of the match against PAOK. The “Union” is accused following a prosecution by the football prosecutor and a complaint by the French referee and is at risk of a fine.

The AEK side asked for her exemption accusing the French referee, who was absent from the proceedings, of having the whole scene pre-planned to cause PAE to be punished. In fact, they came forward with three videos from the area at the time of the reported incident and objected to an unacceptable prosecution since in the reports of the observers and the Police there is no mention anywhere of an abusive attack on the head of the KED but only one “indefinite phrasal episode that does not document prosecution».

“He allegedly received the abusive attack and decides to leave at halftime. It is obviously designed to find a way to punish AEK. Lanois believes that he can cause prosecution in AEK. He invented this thing“, said the legal representative of Citronomavri PAE, Alexis Alexiou.

AEK’s other lawyer, Haris Grigoriousaid in turn: Mr. Lanois was not an official guest but as a match official, referee observer, in a broad sense. He appointed himself an arbitration observer. While the incident happened at 8.52, he remained in the vip lounge area, watching the game performing his duties from the television and the sofa, in the presence of the assistant observer, an authorized official of AEK, Mr. Minas Lysandros, and the police. No one could enter the space. It was a place with tinted windows and with triple glazing so that nothing can be heard. He goes out to the seats, on the outside, 1-2 fans in 5 meters, addressed him the speech in the form of disapproval. “What did you come here to do?” There are 3 videos. He entered the vip lounge and it can be seen in the video that a sports fan applauds him ironically».

He then stated:Penalties are imposed based on observer reports. Mr. Lanois expressed to the assistant observer a vague verbal episode. Lanois did not say the word “Lanois putt…” to him so it was not included in the observer’s report. The assistant observer was 53 minutes with him. He decided at half-time to leave, from the video you will see that instead of leaving and going to the car, he went to the observer Mr. Papadopoulos’ booth and told him that he was leaving. There again, he doesn’t even mention the word put to the first observer…. All five reports in the prosecution include a vague verbal altercation without the word put… The prosecution is legally unfounded as vague and contradictory because 3 of the 4 observer reports have described it as Lanois’s words. They were not present. He relayed the vague verbal episode to match officials. You can only impose penalties with reports. The complaint is about the same incident with a different pronunciation, with an alteration. Events that leave the reports and the match sheet».