“Retailleau number 1 supporter of Event for everyone…and we are the homophobes? » While the Minister of the Interior denounced, among other things, the homophobic chants chanted last week in some Ligue 1 stadiums, the Olympique Marseille fans responded in their own way against Paris Saint-Germain this Sunday, exposing this banner in the stands at the start of the second half.
After the controversy linked to the homophobic chants chanted last Saturday in the stands of the Parc des Princes during the match against Strasbourg, Bruno Retailleau made it known that he could no longer “bear for sport to be the scene of intolerable acts every week”. He wanted to instill a “return to order” by convening football’s governing bodies and the national supporters’ association in a meeting attended by Sports Minister Gil Avérous.
“Stopping matches is very complicated, it’s not the right solution. But we need a temporary interruption”, he declared on the microphone of RMC, believing that it is up to “the sports movement to presume” the suspension of the matches in case of continuation of homophobic chants.
Despite OM’s warnings to its fans before Sunday’s match, Marseille fans sang songs using the same lexical field before the match against PSG, which did not appear to have continued during the match.
While a senator, Bruno Retailleau marched in 2016 with the Manif pour tous to oppose same-sex marriage. This is something that some personalities did not fail to underline at the time of his appointment to the Ministry of the Interior, such as Marine Tondelier, national secretary of the Ecologists.
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