After the controversy, the time for questions.
Did Alvaro Gonzalez really utter racist insults towards Neymar on Sunday night during OM's victory at the Parc des Princes during the famous Ligue 1 Classic?
Since the end of the match, the two players, supported by their team and their partners, have not changed their position on the subject.
There remains a question, why the famous images were not unveiled by the new broadcaster, Téléfoot?
Do they really exist?
Asked on this point by RMC on Monday evening, journalist Thibault Le Rol wanted to restore the truth.
And defend his chain.
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“So that people understand, to achieve a match like that, we have dozens of cameras at the Parc des Princes.
But they are not on all players, at all times, obviously ”
Thibault Le Rol, Téléfoot journalist
"We looked at everything, we saw nothing!" @ ThibaultLeRol, journalist at @telefoot_chaine, looks back on the images of the altercation between Neymar and Alvaro, and defends himself from any instructions on these images # RMCLivepic.twitter.com / 3Rfu6RMG1c
- After Foot RMC (@AfterRMC) September 14, 2020
The journalist-presenter assured Monday evening in the After Foot on RMC, that the channel did not have images of racist remarks by Alvaro against Neymar during PSG-OM and that the channel had no "instructions", as implied by a journalist on the RMC program, Daniel Riolo.
“I'm a little sorry for Daniel (Riolo), explained Thibault Le Rol.
You implied that we wanted to make Ligue 1 a film, that we almost disguised our images.
I spent five hours today dissecting, dissecting all the cameras we had in our possession, to look at these images because racism is too important a subject.
I promise you Daniel, we had all the cameras we had on that footage repatriated at that time.
So that people understand, to make a match like that, we have dozens of cameras at the Parc des Princes.
But they are not on all players, at all times, obviously. "
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The channel denies "hiding" the images
Heckled by Daniel Riolo who questioned the quality and professionalism of the directors that evening, arguing in passing that this sequence “would not have happened on Canal +”, the Téléfoot journalist defended his channel again.
“At that time, we must have had five or six cameras in that area of the field.
We watched everything, we saw nothing (…) We can't film everything in 360 degrees for 96 minutes.
If we had had the images, we would have shown them.
I spent the afternoon with the bosses, with the editors, looking.
There was no deposit.
It was a huge info if we had had the pictures.
It was societal info.
On the sequence that we showed, we do not see the words that Neymar criticizes. "
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