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When ethics is based on hypotheticals and diktat, individual freedom is in danger
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The tone is set.
Before continuing with equally strong words.
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It is with great surprise (and great concern about the treatment of certain players who are mainly of African origin, let us say it clearly) that the FSF has taken note of the letter from the FFF supposed to come from its National Council of the Ethics.
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Read alsoPSG: Gueye would have missed the match in Montpellier… because of the jersey against homophobia
This Thursday evening, the Senegalese Federation published a very, very, long press release to come back to “the Idrissa Gueye affair”.
The Paris Saint-Germain player accused of homophobia for refusing to wear a rainbow flocked shirt on the last day of Ligue 1. After this case, the French Football Federation, through its National Council of Ethics, asked the Senegalese midfielder to kindly explain his absence.
The 30-year-old player officially absent for "
personal reasons
" had explained the capital club.
A behavior of the FFF which obviously does not pass with its Senegalese counterpart.
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Are we really in this France that we were told and told about in our schools, the one whose motto is freedom, fraternity and equality for all?,
asks the Senegalese Federation through this long press release .
How can a body that claims to promote ethics in Football be based on assumptions to address a person to enjoin him to express himself and even worse to display himself with the jersey in LGBTQI + colors to put an end to the so-called speculations?
Isn't this reminiscent of those practices of another time in school classrooms where to punish the "rebellious" pupil, the master or the professor put him to the torture of humiliation in front of his other classmates? class for the sanction as for the example?
It is an elementary principle in law that says that no one can be required to provide proof of a negative fact.
Why didn't the so-called National Ethics Council start by asking the French media who brought the accusation of
provide proof of their allegations?
Better still, why didn't she contact the player's club who communicated the reasons for Idrissa Gana Guéye's non-participation in the controversial match?
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Gueye supported by a whole people
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The Senegalese Football Federation is obliged in such circumstances and without prejudice in any way to the rules which govern Football in a sister association, to express all its solidarity with the Player Idrissa Gana Guéye, member of the Senegalese national team. and to whom she can testify to exceptional human qualities and to her strong sense of respect for others without compromising the respect we owe her as a person enjoying total freedom of conscience.
It also reserves the right to seize the competent international bodies in the field of sport or human rights so that what looks like institutionalized harassment ceases
” concludes the FSF.
Read alsoHomophobia in football: Idrissa Gueye, an absence that embarrasses PSG
Idrissa Gueye, who has received a lot of support in the world of sport, starting with that of his club and selection teammate Abdou Diallo, has remained silent for the moment.
The Senegalese midfielder also received political support, such as that of its president, who spoke via Twitter.
Many supporters, from Paris Saint-Germain or other clubs, support the recent winner of the last African Cup of Nations.
Movements are even launched on social networks.
Just as other voices carry to denounce the behavior of the player.