France - 2012
Sport: Racism, racist violence and hate speech in sporting venues (and reporting and policing thereof)?
- Code:
- RED124
- Key Area:
- Public Life, Culture, Sport & Media
- Strand(s):
- Racism
| Short Answer |
Football is, in France, an area where expressions of racism are important. French football was especially “shaken up” by several racist incidents in February and March 2008. |
| Qualitative Info |
Football is, in France, an area where expressions of racism are important. French football was especially “shaked up” by several racist incidents in February and March 2008 (on February 16, during the match Metz-Valenciennes (L1), the Moroccan player Ouaddou was victim of racist insults from a supporter of the Metz team; on February 22, before the beginning of the match Bastia-Libourne (L2), the supporters of Bastia deployed racist banner, against a player of Libourne (Boubacar Kebé, who is from Burkina-Faso), who had been excluded from the preceding match because he had gave the Bastia supporters - who uttered racist insults to him - the finger; on February 23, after the match Lyon-Metz (L1), several supporters of Metz had racists beheviors (racist insults, nazi salutes…); on March 29 supporters of the Paris-Saint-Germain (PSG) deployed a very large banner “Pédophiles, chômeurs, consanguins : bienvenue chez les Ch’tis” , etc |
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| Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas | Sport, Anti-racism |
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