2023-09-26 15:46:39
In the heart of a new controversy within French stadiums, following a PSG-OM where part of the Parisian public stood out by singing for several minutes a song including several homophobic insults, the Minister of Sports persists and demonstrates its desire for firmness and change.
Questioned this Tuesday by RMC Sport as part of an event on the Paris 2024 Olympics, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra reiterated her desire to see sanctions applied against those who are guilty of singing and especially launching these songs in the stadiums. “We have developed a legal arsenal to combat these elements,” she explains. What is important is to have individual sanctions aimed at the people who launch these chants from the stands. »
“When I hear that it’s part of folklore, it revolts me”
“I had the opportunity to speak yesterday (Monday) on the subject,” says the Minister of Sports. This is a subject that must be taken head-on by all of French football. It’s PSG’s business but it’s not just PSG’s business. We have already heard these homophobic chants in other stadiums with other teams. Passion for football, yes but not discrimination. We can’t get used to these homophobic chants. Just because they happen or have happened regularly doesn’t mean you have to get used to them. On the contrary, we must fight and say that these words we hear in our stadiums are not acceptable and that they have no place there. »
The former tennis player brushes aside the idea that these insults are part of a “folklore” specific to football, or even to sport in general. “When I hear that, it revolts me,” she said. We’re not going to get used to that otherwise, it’s going to be passed down from generation to generation and our kids in the stadiums, what will they say: well that’s normal, I’ll sing too. It’s just not possible, we have to wake up, we all have to act together. I am delighted that the Dilcrah (Interministerial Delegation for the Fight Against Racism, Anti-Semitism and Anti-LGBT Hatred) has decided to make this report to the public prosecutor and I encourage all of French football, and I will be at their side to take up this resolute fight against homophobia and more broadly against all forms of discrimination. »
In the wake of the match, the minister supported the initiative of Olivier Klein, recently head of Dilcrah, to report these chants, which had been noted by the “Rouge Direct” association against homophobia in the sport.
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