The mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet (EELV) described the Tour de France as "macho and polluting", attracting much criticism.
"We must stop this bullshit," said Thursday evening Michel-Édouard Leclerc, whose group is a sponsor of the Great Loop.
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Grégory Doucet, the EELV mayor of Lyon, has been strongly criticized for having described the Grande Boucle as "macho and polluting".
Michel-Édouard Leclerc, the boss of the distribution group, who is also a long-time partner of the cycling race, got carried away on Thursday evening on Europe 1. "It's stupid. At that moment we can say that everything, a football match, everything that is masculine. Why not also say it of what is uniquely feminine? We must stop the bullshit, "he reacted.
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"Political ecology is an adhesion, it is something necessary. So, if we go only on the constraint and with an ascetic and apocalyptic discourse, nobody adheres and we will waste time ", continued Michel-Édouard Leclerc.
"I believe in the need to change our economic system so that it is more virtuous, but it is not worth handling the prohibitions. We do not need ayatollahs."