Paris (AFP)
"We can not get used to homophobia and racism on the pretext that we would be in a football stadium," said President Emmanuel Macron, saying he is in favor of stopping meetings in case of incidents .
"There is no sport whose DNA, whose roots, whose spirit is hate speech," explained the President of the Republic. "We can not get used to homophobia and racism on the pretext that we would be in a football stadium," he added in an interview on Sunday to France Info.
Emmanuel Macron has decided to stop meetings in case of homophobic or racist incidents, supporting his sports minister Roxana Maracineanu, who recalled in mid-April that the referees had the "opportunity to interrupt matches" in the event of homophobic incidents in the stadiums, as well as for racist acts.
"There is nothing that justifies us and that should make us say that it is a culture of hate, we fight everywhere in society against homophobia and racism.It would be accepted in our stadiums? no, "insisted the president.
At the end of March, Roxana Maracineanu had judged "unacceptable" homophobic songs heard during the last clasico "PSG-OM" at the Parc des Princes, where Paris supporters had assimilated the Marseillais to "rats", "fagots" or "fuckers" ".
"I salute the responsibility of the minister, the commitment of several players," said Emmanuel Macron, including the example of Antoine Griezmann.
The 2018 World Champion striker has repeatedly spoken out against homophobia. At the end of May, he made the front page of the magazine Têtu, claiming: "Now that's enough!" about homophobia in football.
"In our schools, our classes take our children to watch theater, and we do not teach young people to go watch sports, it is learned to become a supporter," added the President of the Republic.
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