2023-12-15 20:17:53
A one-year suspended prison sentence and a 45,000 euro fine were requested Friday before the Nice criminal court once morest Christophe Galtierprosecuted for discrimination and harassment, mainly once morest Muslim players, when he was coach of OGC Nice, the 2021-2022 season.
Galtier aclearly sought to reduce the number of blacks and Muslims on the team” in “exploiting Ramadan“, insisted the public prosecutor of Nice, Damien Martinelliin his indictment, evoking the dimension “obsessive” taken by this month of fasting for the former coach of Paris SG, now at the head of the Qatari club Al-Duhail.
“For a professional club, Ramadan is a given. For Christophe Galtier, it’s a problem“, he added. And the fact that sometimes the Nice coach fielded players observing the fast in matches.”is a false subject: To hinder is to make the activity more difficult. To hinder is to say to the player: + if you don’t eat, you don’t play +. When we are in this blackmail, we are in obstruction, even if the obstruction has not succeeded and the player continues to fast“, developed the prosecutor.
Mr. Martinelli also mentioned “a background of ordinary racism on which Mr. Galtier is not entirely lucid“, asking the court to imagine whether the words and facts reported would be acceptable outside the world of football: “I did not perceive any evolution, no awareness, no questioning“, denounced the prosecutor.
Opening Monday morning, the trial continued into the evening with defense pleadings. Throughout the day, the audience remained at word once morest word, with Galtier vehemently rejecting certain remarks attributed to him, notably by Julien Fournierthen general manager of the Aiglons, or explaining that others had been distorted or misinterpreted.
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