A little over a year ago, the former Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra announced that “we should have stopped the PSG-OM match”, due to homophobic chants repeated in chorus and at length at the Parc of Princes. Nothing or almost nothing has changed since then in several French football stadiums, and not only in Paris, as we saw on Saturday during PSG-Strasbourg (4-2).
The end of the match was thus marked by this famous anti-Marseillais chant launched by the ultras and taken up by all the stands of the Parc des Princes, eight days before the Classic played at the Vélodrome stadium. Despite two interventions by the stadium announcer to stop it, it has in fact “increased in volume” among Parisian supporters, as Jean-Baptiste Montarnier pointed out. This PSG subscriber, present on Saturday against Strasbourg, is also president of Bleus et Fiers, an association of LGBT+ supporters supporting the French football team.
“We will have these same songs in Marseille”
“When I hear these chants launched by the capo of the Auteuil bend, I take them in the face, it’s horrible,” he said this Monday to The Team. I was surrounded by people singing, I asked them to stop, explaining to them that I was homosexual and that it bothered me. I heard “Shut up, you’re not a real fan, you faggot” and “Faggots don’t belong in the Park, if it bothers you, you can leave”. »
On RMC, this 40-year-old supporter also assured: “There are always insults and threats, it’s the group effect. With this pressure behind me, I wondered what was going to happen to me when I left the stadium.”
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So much so that Jean-Baptiste Montarnier insists: “What I can’t stand is that the LFP must ensure everyone’s safety, and eradicate these chants, but the match should have been stopped. Unfortunately we will have these same songs on Sunday in Marseille, and unfortunately nothing will still happen.” One of the challenges of Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, who spoke out on the subject on Sunday evening, is there.
