A French referee has astonishingly kicked out at Nantes defender Diego Carlos and sent him off for a second bookable offence after he accidentally tripped him up.
Carlos was already on a yellow card when launched a counter attack in the dying moments.
The 24-year-old Brazilian inadvertently collided with the referee as he desperately tracked back to prevent his side from going further behind.
Amazingly, the referee Tony Chapron, retaliated by kicking back at the player as he clambered back to his feet before brandishing a yellow card followed by a red.
The Nantes defender looked bewildered after Chapron had hung out his foot to try and trip him back and held his hands up in innocence.
But that did not stop the referee from producing the red card - and for some reason awarding PSG a free-kick.
Carlos immediately protested, incensed by the decision and had to be forcibly restrained by his team-mates.
He eventually reluctantly trudged off the field of play just minutes before the final whistle came.
His dismissal didn't have any bearing on the result as PSG finished 1-0 winners after Angel Di Maria's solitary strike 12 minutes into the first half.
Nantes president Waldemar Kita called for Chapron to be banned for six months after the match.
'I received 20 SMS from all over the world telling me that this referee is a joke,' Kita told .
'What do you want me to say to you? If I talk too much, I will be summoned by an ethics commission. We have no right to say anything.
'It's still scandalous to see that. We give a red card to a player who did nothing. Where are we? He has to go back to school.
'Chapron has to rest and get a massage, it works like that now, we cannot see him. I'm waiting for the green light, otherwise I'll be killed. It's amateurism.
'Sincerely, I think he did not do it on purpose. I do not want to believe he did it on purpose.
'At least, you apologise but you do not give a red card, it's not serious. We still have to find a solution, because there is a problem in all this.
'It makes me laugh at the end. I have never seen that before. He should be suspended for six months. If we did it, we would be banned for six months.'
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Cannot believe what I’ve just seen, Nantes player accidentally trips ref, ref lashes out at player then sends him off!
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