the French team mobilizes against school bullying through a video

“You don’t go to school to be unhappy.” Kylian Mbappé, Antoine Griezmann and their partners from the French team participated in a prevention video against school bullying, Thursday November 16, after receiving a visit from the Minister of National Education and Youth the day before in Clairefontaine Gabriel Attal. The latter, who launched a national campaign against harassment on November 9 alongside Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, made the trip to Clairefontaine on Wednesday, and met Didier Deschamps and the players. “We made a video together against harassment and it’s a very good thing that the French team is speaking out on the subject, it shows that we are there and that we are taking a position.” expressed midfielder Warren Zaire-Emery.

In this video, the players of the France team, who are preparing to face Gibraltar on Saturday November 18 in Nice for the qualifying phases of Euro 2024, each declaim a piece of sentence in front of the camera. “Normally, when you go to school, you go there with pleasure,” thus begins captain Kylian Mbappé, “to learn with your teachers”, adds coach Didier Deschamps.

“Harassment is unacceptable”

“You don’t go to school to be unhappy,” says striker Olivier Giroud. “To be made fun of, to be insulted, to be hit”, “to feel alone, sad”, complete midfielders Eduardo Camavinga and Warren Zaire-Emery and striker Randal Kolo Muani. “Whether it’s on social media, in class, in the playground, in sports, harassment is unacceptable,” exclaims Kingsley Coman, before other players urge the potential young victims to talk about it to those around them.

“There is a number you can call, it’s 3018,” concludes Antoine Griezmann, promoting this line created by Minister Gabriel Attal. This national campaign is a continuation of a ministerial plan against harassment, unveiled at the end of September by the Prime Minister, and promising a “general mobilization”.