The kick-off of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar will be launched this Sunday, November 20. If this edition is highly controversial, the captain of the French team, Hugo Lloris is currently singled out after advising his teammates not to wear the rainbow armband (LGBTQ +) so as not to offend the country. host. In Qatar, homosexual acts between adult women or adult men are indeed illegal and punishable by death.
This Thursday, November 17, 2022, the columnists once again commented on this affair and Matthieu Delormeau was annoyed: “When all the players are against racism that does not pose a problem, when all the players are against homophobia there that poses a problem” he launched in response to Béatrice Rosen who said that according to her, football players do not have to bear the weight of these complicated political positions.
“I remember that homosexuality is not a question of culture, it is a question of individual freedom and that over there we go to prison for 1 to 3 years, it is as serious as racism” he continued before making a rather strange comparison: “If we had done the World Cup in the United States at the time of slavery, we would have refused to wear a blindfold so as not to shock the American authorities ?”.
Words that literally shocked viewers who reacted strongly: “We choose our sexual orientations not our skin color, homophobia and racism, not the same fight”, “But what a hypocrite, Matthieu Delormeau does not mind going on vacation in Morocco where homosexuality is also prohibited?”, “Matthieu Delormeau who dares to compare homosexuality and slavery and no columnist or even the presenter could take him back to tell him that such a comparison is totally indecent”.
“Homosexuality is a question of individual freedoms”Qatar: Do you understand that the captain of the France team refuses to wear the LGBT armband? Tense debate in #TPMP ! pic.twitter.com/2kNiLm4DC3
— TPMP (@TPMP) November 17, 2022
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