Roxana Maracineanu wants to “document” radicalization in sport

Minister Delegate for Sports Roxana Maracineanu July 7, 2020. -

The Minister for Sports, Roxana Maracineanu, told deputies on Wednesday that it was planned to “document” the phenomenon of radicalization in sport through a “prevention” component in sports clubs and associations.

Questioned by videoconference by LREM deputy François Cormier-Bouligeon, on the sidelines of the examination of the sport budget before the Committee on Cultural Affairs of the Assembly, and this while the assassin of Samuel Paty had attended a wrestling club "during four months "in Toulouse, the minister explained:" One of the aspects of our prevention plan is to document this question and see how an individual's sporting career can lead to radicalization or vice versa.

Sharing the S files file?

She had recently indicated that "there was no objective data to be able to measure this radicalization" in sport in general even if cases were reported.

"A breakthrough must be made on this and today there are academic entities which offer themselves to work on these subjects and we really need it to document statements like this," she said. Wednesday.

The names of the S files are only in the hands of the Ministry of the Interior.

What we want to do with them is to see how we can share this information further when our agents are going to control the sports associations ”, she also explained.

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