The Lyonnaises celebrate their victory, Saturday May 21, 2022. SPADA / AP Olympique Lyonnais (OL) roars again. In 2021, FC Barcelona ended Lyon’s series of five crowns in a row. In Turin, Sonia Bompastor’s players recovered their continental throne by defeating the Spaniards (3-1), a victory synonymous with an eighth Champions League in OL history. … Read more
The National Opera of Lyon. BERNARD JAUBERT/ONLY FRANCE VIA AFP Permanently taxed by their opponents of sectarianism and amateurism, since their election in June 2020, the new executives led by environmentalists in the metropolis and the city of Lyon have for several weeks been subjected to targeted criticism of their cultural policy. The Lyon right-wing … Read more
“Le Sapin de verre”, on Place Pey-Berland, directed by Arnaud Lapierre. In Bordeaux, December 10, 2021. UGO AMEZ / SIPA When Pierre Hurmic, then candidate of Europe Ecology-The Greens (EELV) for the municipal elections of March 2020, spoke of Bordeaux, he announced that he wanted to make it “A city of arts and cultures”, with … Read more
Zapping But! Football Club OL – Lorient: the debrief and the presentation of the derby If everyone falls, rightly, on Jean-Michel Aulas after his communication of the incidents of OL – OM and Paris FC – OL, Pierre Ferracci, the Parisian president, has not given his share to the dog in the ridiculous since yesterday. … Read more
Sunday, December 12, 2021, LOSC will host Olympique Lyonnais from 1:00 p.m. at the Pierre Mauroy Stadium. On which channel will this meeting of the 18th day of Ligue 1 be broadcast? What are the compositions of Jocelyn Gourvennec and Peter Bosz? What is the program for the French championship today? Topmercato tells you everything … Read more
Djeinabou and his son Mohamed-Lamine, from Guinea, as well as Irida and her two daughters, Asji and Anita, from Albania, are accommodated in the gymnasium of the Mazenod school in Lyon thanks to the mobilization of the collective Jamais sans roof, December 6, 2021. ANTOINE MERLET / HANS LUCAS Children who sleep with their families … Read more
Dimitri Payet was hit by a bottle in the head, during the match between Lyon and Marseille on November 21, 2021. LAURENT CIPRIANI / AP The drop of water that broke the tolerance threshold for violence in French football did not spring from a vase but from a plastic bottle. On November 21, when a … Read more
Monaco player Youssouf Fofana, on the left, scorer of a decisive goal in the Europa League against Real Sociedad, at the Louis II stadium in Monaco, on November 25, 2021. DANIEL COLE / AP Monaco, having, Thursday, November 25, Real Sociedad (2-1) after a serious match, joined Lyon, already qualified and brilliant winner in Brondby … Read more
Lyon city hall, in June 2019. JEAN-PHILIPPE KSIAZEK / AFP The Lyon right is going through a painful pass. After Etienne Blanc’s resignation from the presidency of the opposition group at mayor, because of his questionable remarks on the Vichy regime, his replacement caused a spectacular episode, full of tears and misunderstandings, Thursday, November 18 … Read more
Jean-Luc Boujon, edited by Gauthier Delomez 7:46 p.m., November 16, 2021, modified at 11:14 p.m., November 16, 2021 Faced with growing insecurity in the Guillotière district in central Lyon, the local supermarket has decided to close its doors earlier as a precaution. One of the consequences of the explosion of delinquency in this district of … Read more