his remarks on the city of Saint-Denis, live on American television, caused controversy!

A few kilometers separate them, but the two cities are still very close. Indeed, Saint-Denis and Paris may not be glued but in the space of a few minutes, you can go to the Stade de France, the stadium located in Saint-Denis in which the Blues became world champions in 1998 and in which the 2022 Champions League final will be played on May 28. If many things happened in this stadium, this does not mean that Thierry Henry has good memories.

Or rather, the former French international wanted to point out the difference between the city of Seine-Saint-Denis and the French capital. “Saint-Denis is not Paris”let go of Thierry Henry at first, responding to a speaker who placed the stadium in Paris itself. “Technically, be careful, the stadium is located in Saint-Denis. Saint-Denis is not Paris. Believe me, you don’t want to be in Saint-Denis, it’s not the same as Paris …”. If the one who officiates on certain weekends on Premium Video especially wanted to amuse journalists and viewers with his sentence, he finally reaped the wrath of Mathieu Hanotin.

A mayor not happy at all

Indeed, the PS mayor of Saint-Denis only very moderately appreciated the tackle of ex-football and did not hesitate to let him know by posting a long message on his Facebook account which he relayed then on his Twitter account. “Dear Thierry Henry, you are right, Saint-Denis is not Paris. Saint-Denis is a city in which the poverty rate is very high. The percentage of unfit housing is unfortunately one of the highest in France. Insecurity in the public space is a scourge that we have not yet managed to stem. But Saint-Denis is a city with gigantic potential.”he wrote at first before defending the city he leads by proving that it had a great history.

“So yes, Saint-Denis is not Paris. But Saint-Denis is the city of the Basilica of the Kings of France, for which we have just started the work of reassembling the second spire. It is the one of the cities in Île-de-France in which the most companies are created. It is a city in which 150 different nationalities live together, bringing to life the richness of their multiple cultures”he informed Thierry Henry before expressing his anger for his attack: “The contempt with which you have characterized our city is not acceptable. We are not Paris, but we are not infrequent for all that”.

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