This Tuesday, October 17, 2023, Lilian Thuram was invited on the set of the show “It’s yours”. From the outset, columnist Mohamed Bouafsi recalled that the former footballer is strongly committed to the fight against racism. “Lilian, there is this book and there is also the foundation that you created in 2008, at the end of your sporting career when you retired to translate your anti-racist commitment into action” he declared in order to introduce the guest.
The columnist then returned to the comments made on September 21 by coach Bernard Casoni in a recording in the content has been revealed. “You are no more stupid than North Africans” you can hear him say.
Pointed out, the 62-year-old man justified himself by claiming to have simply been clumsy: “The Maghreb were my last clubs. Everywhere I went, I put principles in place. So it worked there, as it worked in all the Maghreb countries that I have been to. So I said that what I had put in place there, I was capable of putting it in place in Orléans. These are somewhat vague sentences. It’s as if I had trained in Canada and that I said “We’re no more stupid than Canadians”.
Lilian Thuram makes an important statement
Enough to make Lilian Thuram react: “What is very interesting is that he said it at a press conference. So it’s cultural. Sometimes it comes out, and the person saying it doesn’t realize what they’re saying. This is why we need people to say: ‘Be careful, never again!’. And this is why we must invite people who experience racism to denounce racism.” he analyzed.
“We must invite people who experience racism to denounce it. There must be people who say: ‘Be careful, never again!'” French football shaken by racism: Lilian Thuram in #CàVouspic.twitter.com/fGgKC25xpa
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