A defamation which remains to be specified, according to justice.
The defamation complaint of the Blues coach Didier Deschamps against Eric Cantona was declared void Friday by the Paris Criminal Court, for procedural reasons.
Didier Deschamps, who has ten days to appeal this decision, accuses Eric Cantona of having defamed him on the eve of Euro-2016 when he declared in the British daily The Guardian that Karim Benzema and Hatem Ben Arfa no were not selected because of their origins.
In a statement, his lawyer Céline Bekerman indicated that Eric Cantona "assumed the words he had made in the past".
The court considered that the way in which the complaint was drafted was such as to "create uncertainty as to the extent of the facts to which the defendant had to answer", that is to say that the words covered by the defamation no. were not clearly defined.
Cantona attacked Deschamps on the Benzema and Ben Arfa cases
The lawyer for Eric Cantona, who had in the past defended the “freedom of expression” of his client immediately welcomed “this victory” and considers that “justice has been done”.
Postponed, the trial on the merits had been postponed to October 2021.
"One thing is certain, Benzema, (excluded from the Blues because of his indictment in the case of the sextape targeting his partner Mathieu Valbuena, Editor's note) and Hatem Ben Arfa (then on the list of reservists, ultimately not retained, Editor's note) these are the two best players in France and they will not play the Euro.
What is also certain is that their origins are North African.
So yes, the debate is open, "Canto", former Manchester United idol, said in The Guardian on May 26, 2016.
“Deschamps has a name that sounds very French.
It is perhaps the only one in France to have such a French name.
No one has ever mingled with anyone in their family.
Like the Mormons in America, ”he added.
Deschamps immediately filed a defamation complaint.
