She has been playing in the French basketball championship for thirteen years and is one of the pillars of the Aubervilliers team. However, at the beginning of January Salimata Sylla could not set foot on the floor after the referee of the meeting banned her because of her hijab. However, she had been wearing it for three years without anyone seeing any problem, as she was able to confide to our colleagues at Parisian. Especially since during the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024, it will be possible for foreign players to equip themselves with it.
Salimata Sylla expressed her incomprehension and the humiliation she felt during the referee’s decision. “I win my place for this match, I get up on a Sunday to drive three hours to Escaudain (Hauts-de-France), I change and I warm up with my teammates to then be excluded?”she asked, still shocked by the situation, before continuing: “While I have an approved headgear? I felt humiliated”.
Éric Ciotti “happy” with the decision, Véronique Genest also approves
Our colleagues from Parisian recall that the French Basketball Federation (FFBB) has mentioned the ban on headgear for three or four years. However, according to Sébastien Marie-Sainte, the president of the basketball club of Aubervilliers, it is only since January that the “witch hunt” was launched. A “hunting” that seems to suit Eric Ciotti.
Indeed, the president of the Republicans was delighted with the decision of the FFBB. “All my support for the French Basketball Federation which did not give in to a player from the Aubervilliers club refusing to take off her hijab”he first congratulated before letting go: “This object of women’s submission and Islamist proselytism has nothing to do with our courts!”. A tweet which did not fail to react and in particular Véronique Genest who retweeted the publication of the deputy without delay.
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