The current coach of Paris SG Christophe Galtier “disputes with the greatest firmness” having made discriminatory remarks towards players when he officiated in Nice, his lawyer reacted on Wednesday in a press release sent to AFP.
The French technician, moved from Nice to PSG last summer“learned with amazement of the insulting and defamatory remarks” reported by the former Nice leader Julien Fournier in an internal letter relayed on Tuesday by several media, said Me Olivier Martin, announcing “legal proceedings” to come.
“We can’t have so many blacks in the team”
According to this letter written by Julien Fournier, the current coach of Paris Saint-Germain would have asked him to “take into account the reality of the city of Nice and that we could not have so many blacks and Muslims in the city. ‘crew “.
The former football director of OGC Nice continues in his email, about this famous exchange with Christophe Galtier: “He said to me: “I went to the restaurant and everyone fell on me in saying that we have a team of blacks Julien, you must realize what city we are in, we are in the city of Jacques Médecin [ancien maire de Nice]and our team does not correspond to what people want, as it does not correspond to me”. There was no sporting argument but only religious or skin color arguments. “