The French football trio, Kingsley Coman, Aurelian Chawemini, and Randall Kolo Mwani, were forced to close the messages and comments feature on their official accounts on the social networking site “Instagram” due to the large amount of racist messages and comments that were sent to them since the defeat of France in the final of the French Cup. world against Argentina.
Kingsley Coman and Aurelian Chawemini missed two penalty kicks, while Kolo Mwani missed a completely exclusive opportunity in the last minute of the match itself, which exposed them to harsh criticism that amounted to racism.
Randal Kolo Muani a été contraint à desactiver ses commentaires sur ses deux dernières publications Instagram suite à la vague de racisme qu'il a subit.
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Force to Randall.
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French press reports stated that Colo Mwani - the French national team striker who is of Congolese origin - was forced to prevent commenting on his Instagram photos, after the insulting comments crossed all limits, and he could no longer bear them.
In the same context, the company "Meta" - the owner of the "Facebook" and Instagram platforms - entered the racist line of attack on the black-skinned French players, confirming that it had suspended a group of accounts and prevented a number of racist comments.
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missed a penalty kick in the World Cup final, so they launched racist expressions against him, and on his Instagram account, the comments were filled with endless racist expressions, emoticons appearing in the form of a monkey or a gorilla and the like and demanding his deportation pic.twitter.com/nuxG1rNRZj
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And a report by the British newspaper “The Athletic” included a response from a “META” spokesperson, in which he said: “We do not want any racist abuses on our platforms, we have banned all disgusting speeches and messages that deviate from our rules.”
He added, "We also want to protect people from having to see this abuse from the start, which is why we developed (Hidden Words), a feature that blocks offensive comments."
The same spokesman confirmed that Meta has entered into contact with the players and their teams directly, since the World Cup final, "to provide them with support, and to help them operate these tools," as he put it.
Tchwamini stopped commenting on Instagram after the racial abuse he faced.
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While Kolo Mwani (Eintracht Frankfurt's German player) stopped all messages and comments, Chowmini (Real Madrid's Spanish player) partially limited them, which is the same thing Koeman (Bayern Munich's German player) did.
This racist campaign against the French national team players brings to mind what the England quartet, Bukayo Saka, Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho, who all missed penalty kicks in England's loss to Italy in the Euro 2022 final, were also subjected to, as they were subjected to racist abuse on social media. .
It is noteworthy that the French national team had lost the World Cup title to Argentina, after being defeated in a penalty shootout 2-4, after the end of the original and extra time for the match with a 3-3 draw.