The Deschamps - Cantona trial postponed to October 2021

The explosive encounter is postponed to a later date. As announced by Le Parisien Thursday, the trial in which the Blues coach Didier Deschamps is suing Eric Cantona for defamation was postponed this Friday, at the request of their lawyers who wanted to protest against the reform of their pension scheme.

Before the 17th correctional chamber of the Paris court, the lawyers of Didier Deschamps, Me Carlo Alberto Brusa, and Éric Cantona, Me Céline Bekerman, asked for the dismissal to be "in solidarity with the movement" protesting their profession against reform of their autonomous pension scheme. But the poster was not canceled: the lawyers assured that their clients intended to be present when the case was debated. The trial was postponed to October 12, 2021, but until then, a hearing has been set for September 17, 2020 to examine the procedural nullities raised by lawyer Eric Cantona.

"I am allowed to wonder about this"

In an interview with the English newspaper The Guardian on May 26, 2016, Cantona had suggested that the non-selections in Blue by Karim Benzema and Hatem Ben Arfa were also due to their patronymic. "I'm not surprised that he used Benzema's situation not to take it," Cantona said. Especially after Manuel Valls said he shouldn't be playing for France. Ben Arfa is perhaps the best player in France today. But they have origins. I am allowed to wonder about this. "

These accusations had ulcerated Deschamps, especially when he learned that the day after their publication, the word "racists" had been tagged on his house in Concarneau. Wounded, he immediately filed a complaint and promised to go through with the proceedings.