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May 5th 1992 : I don't know if it's known out of France , but here it's a traumatism : the worst day of the french football history ! It was a semi-final of the French Football Cup , the Olympique de Marseille against the SC Bastia = the medias said it was going to be a giant match , the match were everybody should be ! And it's really important , it's like David vs Goliath ... The OM in those years was the greatest and wealthiest team of France and Europe , they were winning all the matchs and earning fantastic amounts of awards and money ! While the SC Bastia was a province team , and it was already a miracle that they were in a semi-final ... And the chance had decided that this match will take place at Bastia in the very old Furiani Stadium ... To celebrate this match , the boss of the SC Bastia , Jean-François Filippi , decided to build a provisional tribune which will stand for 5 000 seats , when the decision is made we are at 12 days from the ceremony and two compagnies are ready to take the opportunity : Space Locations and Sud Tribunes . But at the very last minute , Jean-François Filippi said that the tribune must be finally for 10 000 seats ! So Space Locations gave up but they warned the Furiani administration : it's strictly impossible to build a serious tribune of this capacity in just 10 days ! But Sud Tribunes don't want to give up : it's the business of the century ! To make it possible they spat on the security principles ... The 5th May , the day of the match , the new tribune seem to be OK ... It's a wonderful party under a quiet blue sky and the stadium is fully occupied : 18 000 seats in total with 10 000 on the provisional tribune ! Some firefighters are telling that the structure is not stable , they have a terrible feeling ! But nobody heard them ... At 20 : 20 the journalists are going to open the emission in a few minute when a strange sound is heard ... Like thunder ... Here is what it mean : Advance the video to 00:20 to see the tape I'm talking about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3IK6hJGSI&feature=player_detailpage#t=1647s On this tape you can hear a boy crying " Daddy ! " " Daddy ! " " Daddy ! " ! And he's not alone ... An important part of the victims are children of less than 16 years old ... Half of the tribune crushed on the ground taking half of the 10 000 persons on it ... Peoples are killed or rudely injured by the long tubular pieces of metal are real arrows ! Players and policemen have been the first to rescue the victims enmeshed within the mass of tubes and steel beams of the North Stand , but 18 persons died this night and more than 2 500 persons are still paralysed : this is the worst event in France that caused so many paralysed in only a single time ! That's how was the tribune the day after : Do you know why the separation between what crushed and what keep on is so clear ? It is because the material that Jean-Marie Boismond , the engineer of Sud Tribunes , had used for the upper seats is ( normally ) absolutely not for this kind of construction ! It is not even a professional material ! Since this night of horror , the 5th May is bannished : no football matches this day ! I wanted to show you what is the price of money for some peoples and as I'm a huge football fan , I don't want to see this again !
