Invited Sunday on France 2 to speak on the death of George Floyd and the wave of protest that it has engendered in the world, Yannick Noah regretted the silence of white sportsmen in such circumstances.
"It's good that the young people take care of it, but what bothers me is that they are all half-breeds or blacks," said the former tennis champion, interviewed on France 2 television channel. the positions of his sports compatriots Gaël Monfils, Kylian Mbappé or Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on this subject.
"The bad apples, sometimes we supported them a little"
" Why ? It is an injustice that should make everyone aware, ”he added. “There have been cases of more or less stifled cases. I am certain that the police in general do their job very well, but the bad apples sometimes we supported them a little ”. Relaunched on the need for "white sportsmen" to get involved on the issue, the former tennis player converted to the song replied: "Yes, because their silence bothers me, it goes further than that".
"What reassures me as a half-breed is that, fairly quickly, we talk about injustice," he added, however. Yes, it's a black man, it has always happened, but then all of a sudden there are also young white people, a young generation who realize that this is their future for them, they don't want to live in this world. "
Noah, winner of Roland-Garros in 1983 and who has just celebrated his 60 years, had already published last week a photo of him on his Instagram account, dressed in a white T-shirt where we could read "I can 't breathe, #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd'.
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