Owner of the Olympique de Marseille, Frank McCourt firmly denounced the "serious incidents" which occurred at the training center of the Olympique de Marseille on Saturday.
In a press release, the wealthy American businessman qualifies the perpetrators of disturbances as “small groups of thugs” and refuses to associate them with groups of supporters.
“OM supporters love their club and it is therefore impossible in my eyes to recognize this status for these tiny groups of thugs,” said the shareholder who asked that those responsible be brought to justice.
Franck McCourt draws the parallel between these events of the Commandery and those of the storming of the Capitol a few days ago in the United States.
“What happened a few weeks ago in Washington DC and what happened yesterday in Marseille follow a comparable logic: a few sources are fueling a blaze of opinions, invectives and threats which are amplified by social networks creating the conditions that lead to violence and chaos ", adds the leader who ensures to lead with President Jacques-Henri Eyraud" a policy of sanitation and recovery of the club "while reaffirming his" will "and his "Commitment" for the club.
“These dark forces wish to destroy the work accomplished, they only strengthen us in the conduct of our plan, in the monitoring of our objectives.
It is always easier to destroy than to build.
We are builders.
With the whole team and its President, OM will continue on its way, ”concluded the American.
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Statement by Frank H. McCourt on the very serious incidents that occurred at the Olympique de Marseille training center at La Commanderie.
- Olympique de Marseille (@OM_Officiel) January 31, 2021
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