Alvaro-Neymar affair: PSG able to prove racist insults?

Will we know the truth in the case of supposed racism affecting Neymar?

The PSG star accuses the OM defender Alvaro of having called him a monkey during Sunday's explosive clasico (0-1).

Monday evening, the Téléfoot channel, holder of the rights to the meeting, indicated that it could not reach any conclusion and that it had transmitted the images to the LFP, from which the disciplinary committee emanates, as well as to the two clubs .

But new images could reveal the truth.

According to our information, PSG has commissioned a small team to re-dissect each image.

A first examination would have confirmed the initial diagnosis made by the new football channel of the Mediapro group: impossible to find the ultimate proof of the remarks that the Marseillais would have uttered.

But the club also has an additional weapon.

As a broadcaster, Téléfoot benefits from the images of most cameras.

But the production of the meeting is also accompanied by the capture of additional images by means of exclusive cameras, intended for other international broadcasters.

In this context, BeIN MENA (the Middle East branch) had "ordered" an isolated camera pointed this Sunday on Neymar, as the channel announced Monday evening before broadcasting images on its Twitter account.

For legal reasons, these are only accessible to network users in that part of the world, but are starting to circulate through other channels.

Lip reading experts

The first sequence broadcast by BeIN in the night from Monday to Tuesday, of 3 minutes, is that of the half hour of play. No sound is audible, but Alvaro is face to face when he speaks vehemently to Neymar , causing his first reaction, first of surprise.

The defender, however, is not in the field of the camera when Neymar moves away and then retraces his steps to demand accountability from the Marseillais.

The Brazilian will then complain fiercely to the referees and his bench.

The incident then broadcast for about 5 minutes is that of the end of the meeting.

Alvaro, in profile and filmed through the nets of Mandanda's goal, calls out Neymar, who immediately accuses him of racism.

The altercation continues at the heart of the general end-of-game brawl.

The rest of the scene shows Neymar and Benedetto calming each other down.

Neymar, facing the camera, then walks again towards Alvaro, who is from behind, before leaving the field.

The channel has made these new elements available to PSG, which also belongs to the Emirate of Qatar.

OM would also have asked to recover them.

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On the images broadcast on Twitter, as on the files recovered by the PSG, the sound is not audible.

The club has commissioned specialists to attempt to technically exploit the images.

But above all, PSG will also involve lip reading experts, which has not yet been the case so far.

After the first elements scrutinized by Spanish speakers, he is now confident in his ability to bring out the remarks denounced by Neymar, in particular the use of the term “mono” (“monkey”, in Spanish).

The expertises will have to confirm the strong convictions which the Parisian club now nourishes in this file.