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"Elite clientelism", "unbearable": controversy after the exemption granted to the public at Roland-Garros on Friday evening

2021-06-13T22:35:03.558Z


LE SCAN SPORT - Matignon's decision to allow the Roland-Garros public to attend the end of the Nadal-Djokovic match, beyond the 11:00 p.m. curfew, angered members of the opposition but also Parisians.


The exemption granted by Matignon to the organizers of the Roland-Garros tournament on Friday evening to allow the public to attend the Nadal-Djokovic semi-final beyond 11 p.m. by breaking the curfew has made at least 5,000 happy in the stands.

The privileged people of the Porte d'Auteuil even greeted this gesture by chanting in the enclosure unexpected "

Thank you Macron, thank you Macron

" or ""

Forget (Guy Forget is tournament director, Editor's note) president, Forget president!

But this favor granted to lovers of the little yellow ball also provoked incomprehension and the anger of elected officials and Parisian residents.

Authorization at Roland-Garros and dispersion with tear gas at Les Invalides

Because at the time when the public feasted in the stands of the sumptuous exchanges between the Spaniard and the Serbian on clay, at the Invalides, the police dispersed a crowd gathered at the Invalides come to take advantage of the mild temperatures.

A difference in treatment denounced

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Source: lefigaro

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