The image sparked a wave of outrage. On Saturday, supporters of the Toulouse Football Club discovered a photo of a club shirt flocked with the name of terrorist Mohammed Merah and bearing the number 7, the number of victims murdered by the author of the March 2012 killings. quickly removed from social networks, she reacted to the management of the TFC who described this flocking as “despicable and shameful”.
The Toulouse prosecutor’s office said on Sunday that an investigation was open. “The apology of terrorism by means of communication to the public online is an offense punishable by seven years of imprisonment”, recalled the services of the public prosecutor of Toulouse, who specify that the investigation “begins”.
The Toulouse Football Club clarified, for its part, that it “reported it as soon as it became aware of it, and affirms that the said jersey was not processed by the teams of the official Club shops”.