Alain Krakovitch gave the capital’s football club a red card on Sunday. The director of TGV-Intercités launched the PSG for having used the plane for his trip to Nantes on Friday when, according to him, the SNCF offers an offer adapted to the needs of the club.
“Paris-Nantes is in less than two hours by TGV, I am renewing our proposal for a TGV offer adapted to your specific needs, for our common interests: safety, speed, services and eco-mobility”, he said. he suggested in a tweet in reaction to a video of the Italian midfielder Marco Verratti on the PSG plane posted on social networks. Friday evening, PSG went to win 3-0 on the lawn of the FC Nantes and made the round trip, as he does almost every time, by plane.
Messi in the sights of Attac
The boss of the TGV has thus made his contribution to the debate on the use of the plane, and in particular that of private jets which has recently raged within the French political class. Some on the left and among environmentalists strongly wish to frame it because of the carbon impact of such a mode of transport.
On Friday, the anti-globalization association Attac pointed to the attitude of PSG player Lionel Messi, whose private jet has made 52 flights since June, “i.e. 1,502 tonnes of CO2”. “It’s as much as a Frenchman in 150 years”, underlined the organization, also calling for regulating the use of private jets.
