Médéric Chapitaux is a civil servant of the Ministry of Sports, a sociologist and a former gendarme. He is the author of Quand l'islamisme penetrètre le sport (PUF, 2023).
LE FIGARO. - On TikTok, a French footballer with 780,000 followers and who defends a rigorist Islam, "distinguished" himself with a video in which he declares that his wife will not be able to have "boy friends", "express herself on social networks" or even put on "tight clothes". He was expelled by his club. In your book, you explain that Islamism has penetrated sport. What about amateur football?
Médéric CHAPITAUX. - Islamism first penetrated amateur football because it is a less controlled, less visible and therefore easily accessible space for Islamist ideology. Those who assume this entryism in professional sport are figureheads who know that their notoriety will provoke enthusiasm on the part of some and hostility on the part of others - but the controversy also helps to convey...
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