"Go back to Africa", "This Moroccan does not have the necessary faculties for the human condition" ... Here are the kind of racist insults and intimidation exposed on Instagram by the French cyclist Nacer Bouhanni at the time of announcing this Monday his filing complaint.
"It's been a long time since I endure it and keep silent but, this time, I will not let pass", announces the Lorraine sprinter of the team Arkea-Samsic, champion of France 2012. Football, cycling, basketball, snowboarding… no sport is spared by this scourge and many athletes have decided to speak up for several months.
Since his collision a week ago, with Jake Stewart a few meters from the finish of the Cholet-Pays de Loire race, Nacer Bouhanni has indeed suffered a flood of criticism.
On Sunday March 28, he was guilty of sending the Briton from Groupama-FDJ along the barriers, a fault which led to his disqualification in this sprint won by the Italian Elia Viviani.
The message sent by the runner on Monday.
Instagram / @ nacer_bouhanni Instagram Nacer Bouhanni
"You don't have a brain," the main concerned, who was diagnosed with a broken hand on Tuesday, had swung to him on Twitter.
The international federation had for its part "strongly condemned the dangerous driving" of the French and "asked for the imposition of sanctions adapted to the height of the seriousness of the act complained of".
Bouhanni is aimed at "little jokers"
Nacer Bouhanni had him, in the process, apologized and pleaded an unintentional "error" by changing course.
But the controversy has not deflated since on social networks.
This is why the sprinter therefore addressed this Monday "to the little jokers who have fun writing to me personally or commenting on certain cycling sites that I should return to Africa, that I am a criminal, that I am a Maghrebian who needs to be interned and who send me pig emoticons
(Editor's note: he used the emoji in his message)
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Friday, the sportsman, born thirty years ago in the Vosges of Algerian parents, had already expressed his anger on his networks.
He then responded to the comments of a journalist and to the interview given by Jake Stewart.
“If he has really seen his life go by as he says in an interview, I advise him to stop cycling.
Everyone knows that there are risks unfortunately ... It is not the world of care bears, there are sometimes falls unfortunately (...) And I repeat it one last time, I never wanted to. to drop voluntarily, ”he exclaimed.
