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"It's karma, it's deserved": they attack Nacer Bouhanni on social networks and assume

2021-04-06T20:13:30.092Z


A torrent of insults fell on the French sprinter, guilty of an error having caused the injury of an opponent. We exchanged av


Eric

(all the first names of Internet users have been changed)

, 40, concedes it.

"Cold, probably" that he would not insult Nacer Bouhanni of "average runner and lousy individual".

On the other hand, Bernard, he does not withdraw anything from what he typed on his keyboard.

The Vosges sprinter of the Arkéa-Samsic formation “behaved like an m…” and he would tell her as is… if he did not live on another continent.

On March 28, the 30-year-old French champion in 2012 was downgraded due to a dangerous sprint during the final seconds of the Cholet-Pays de la Loire race.

Under the sanction of the International Cycling Union (UCI) for this change of trajectory, which he swears unintentional at full speed, Nacer Bouhanni has since faced a torrent of insults.

Some of a racist nature, such as "Send him back to Africa" ​​or "Species of bougnoule", forced him to file a complaint.

But it is more broadly a question of hatred online and in packs in this file, as in so many others having for pathetic decoration the social networks.

"It's been eight days that I have received hundreds of messages, it turns to harassment, so there are fed up," lamented the runner to L'Equipe on Tuesday.

This interview reacted even to the Englishman Jake Stewart, the man pushed by Bouhanni against the balustrade and whose left hand is fractured.

"The comments and racism directed against Nacer this week are absolutely deplorable," he said.

"Fire this m ... from your team"

So what goes through the minds of the perpetrators of these invective?

None of those who published racist messages wanted to answer us.

The author of "Send it back to Africa" ​​having swept our request with a "no" once the color was announced.

Four Internet users, men mostly living abroad, however agreed to speak to us.

All of them do it anonymously, like the pseudonym behind which they are hiding on Twitter or Instagram.

A certain harshness and the same peremptory tone connect their words.

None felt they had slipped, “offended” and even less participated in any form of harassment.

Bernard calls for no amalgamation.

With racist protests already, but he especially refuses to mix his message ("Transfer this m ... from your team") with those received by "a footballer who has not scored a goal, lost a match, or missed a pass ".

“There, it's unfair, slice this Colombian of 31 years, passionate about cycling.

Anyone can have a bad day.

But putting the life of another person in danger deserves all the reactions of social media, but especially those of the UCI authorities ”.

According to him, "it is karma, it is deserved".

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Racism: the strong words of cyclist Nacer Bouhanni, harassed on social networks

This expression, Laurent uses it too.

“When you do something wrong, something wrong happens to you.

On April 1, this inhabitant of southern Europe went to Nacer Bouhanni's Instagram profile and posted a series of emoticons there.

Three men vomiting, four turds and five clown faces.

“Of course, on social networks, we are more aggressive with messages, otherwise they would not be taken into account.

If I write a huge text explaining all the reasons why I think what he did was wrong, I don't think he bother to read it, ”explains this man.

"It's not harassment"

If Eric treated the Frenchman of "lousy", it is because Nacer Bouhanni chose to justify his clumsy gesture instead, according to him, of being silent.

He then had "an impulsive reaction because, for the thousandth time, he complained about the critics instead of saying:

" Oh yes, well, I fucked up ".

Something has to change.

(...) Come to think of it, Bouhanni is a product of his time when people say, when they screw up, that it's never their fault.

"

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What if Jake Stewart had a serious fall?

This is what David was thinking when sharing his tweet on Tuesday.

The Frenchman, he presumed, could then “have ended up in prison for having tried to kill someone by intentionally blocking him”.

"I was referring to a possible civil lawsuit in the event of serious injury or worse (...), he defends himself.

It is not harassment.

Like David, all of them dissociate themselves from racist messages and condemn them.

Source: leparis

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