“Shocked” and “Indignant”. It is in these terms that the Minister for Sports, Roxana Maracineanu, described her reaction, Monday, September 14, after the broadcast, the day before on social networks, of snapshots of offensive banners deployed in Paris on the sidelines of the League clasico 1 between Paris-SG and Olympique de Marseille.
The latter, deployed in front of the Parc des Princes and on the Bir-Hakeim bridge near the Eiffel Tower, had been shared on Twitter by the Collectif Ultras Paris (CUP), the main group of fans of the club in the capital. One of them, on which we could read “PSG-OM: 9 years of sodomy in an organized gang”, has drawn accusations of homophobia. While the other attacked the Marseille player Dimitri Payet and his wife.
“Impunity for homophobia in football only feeds it. On March 17, 2019, there were homophobic insults during a PSG-OM in the presence of the minister ”, denounced Julien Pontes, the spokesperson for the Rouge direct collective, to Agence France-Presse.
“We will certainly file a complaint (…) as we do every time. We are the only ones to do it. Why is the Paris City Hall not doing it? PSG, OM, football authorities should react. “
The CUP had tweeted in the evening two new photos of banners attacking OM with insults of a sexual nature, deployed in front of the Parc des Princes and the Moulin-Rouge.
“What happened outside was also of a nature, I have the impression, to heat the spirits on the grounds, we saw it yesterday with a distribution of boxes that we never have seen in such a match “, lamented Minister Roxana Maracineanu. She called for ” the responsibility “ players, coaches, clubs and authorities.
