He couldn't contain himself.
Calmly and in the company of Neymar, Kylian Mbappé approached the excitement Tuesday evening at the Parc des Princes to protest, refuse, say stop.
In the midst of the tumult after the act of racism committed on the edge of the field, the world champion confided to the head referee that neither he nor his team will resume play if Sebastian Coltescu, the 4th official, remains on the field.
We know the rest.
Last November, the French striker already posted the revolting image of the bloodied face of Michel Zecler, the rap producer beaten up by the police in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, with a "dirty negro" superimposed on it, the insult attributed to the three police officers involved (an investigation is underway).
The player, who manages his social networks alone and live, wrote under the terrible screenshot: “Unbearable video.
Unacceptable violence.
"And the still young prodigy (22 years old in ten days) concludes his post with the words of a song from Diam's:" My France has values, principles and codes ... My France does not live in the lie.
With heart and rage, in the light, not in the shadows.
My France is mixed up, yeah, it's a rainbow.
She bothers you, I know, because she doesn't want you as a model.
“An ode to living together which in particular won the approval of Serge Aurier, former defender of PSG, or even of television host Mélissa Theuriau, the companion of Jamel Debbouze.
"What he did was great"
It is with the family of the actor, 23 years his senior, that Kylian Mbappé spent the first confinement, from March to May, in the south of France.
Like the comic, the 4th top scorer tied for PSG inquires, reads, discusses, listens, shares his favorites and his anger with his first circle.
“It is whole,” confides one of his close friends.
He does not calculate anything, does not think about his image or the repercussions.
When the situation revolts him, he reacts.
His sense of purpose is well known.
The one most developed after refers to his refusal of injustice.
Recently, he again supported the profession of teacher after the beheading of Samuel Paty.
Last spring, he relayed the hashtag “JusticeforGeorge” after the death of this American, also a victim of police and racist violence in the United States, before posting a cartoon in English demanding “police with us, not against us!
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His financial ease did not make him above ground.
Born to a Franco-Cameroonian father and a mother of Algerian origin, the boy from Bondy grew up in a modest, multicultural and multiconfessional environment, where mixing and sharing served as legs to move forward in life.
He was brought up in benevolence, with values of respect and justice deeply rooted in Cameroonian culture.
"What he did was great," says Jean-François Suner, the former sports director of AS Bondy, where he worked with him as a child until his adolescence.
Fortunately, we've never been in this kind of situation, but Kylian has always shown, from an early age, character and determination.
He obviously hasn't changed.