France’s sports activities minister has referred to as for soccer membership Monaco to be sanctioned after one in all their gamers coated over an LGBTQ assist message on the group’s shirt through the group’s remaining league sport on Sunday.
The French league staged its annual marketing campaign towards discrimination throughout this weekend’s remaining spherical with every group sporting a badge that includes the phrase “homophobia” crossed out.
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Nonetheless, Monaco midfielder Mohamed Camara taped over the badge throughout his group’s 4-0 win over Nantes, and likewise skipped the pre-match group photograph the place all gamers stood earlier than a banner with the identical message.
French Sports activities Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra referred to as Camara’s actions “unacceptable” and referred to as for “agency sanctions” towards each the participant and the membership.
Aurore Bergé, the French minister of equality, additionally condemned Camara on social media.
“Homophobia shouldn’t be an opinion, it is a crime,” she wrote on X, previously Twitter. “And homophobia kills. There have to be strict punishment for Mohamed Camara.”
Monaco coach Adi Hütter stated after the sport that the membership helps the league’s initiative and that Camara’s actions have been “a private alternative.”
The membership stated they’d focus on the scenario with Camara internally.
That is the fourth consecutive season that skilled golf equipment in France have been invited to make use of rainbow-colored numbers, armbands or patches on their shirts to assist the LGBTQ motion. Annually, comparable controversies come up.
In 2022, Senegalese-born Everton midfielder Idrissa Gueye, then enjoying for Paris Saint-Germain, refused to take part in a sport requiring gamers to put on shirts with rainbow-colored numbers.
Senegal’s President Macky Sall publicly supported Gueye, stating “his non secular convictions have to be revered.”
Final yr, Nantes fined Egyptian striker Mostafa Mohamed for comparable causes. Mohamed once more didn’t play in Sunday’s sport. Camara additionally didn’t play within the equal sport final season.
