Government spokesman Olivier Véran deemed "null" and "anachronistic" the refusal of some football players to wear a rainbow jersey on the occasion of fight against homophobia. Several players from Toulouse, Nantes or Guingamp refused to play with the rainbow flocked jersey this weekend, even if the vast majority of L1 and L2 players participated in this annual campaign "Homos or straight, we all wear the same jersey".
"Homosexuality is not an opinion: no, it is a crime, "said the minister on the set of France2.