"We do not reveal a private conversation": Thauvin's anger after the broadcast of a passage from an interview with RMC

The first video posted yesterday by the media RMC of a long interview with Florian Thauvin may have been quickly deleted, nothing escapes the memory of the internet.

This Friday evening, in particular on the social network Twitter, a controversy quickly swelled when members of the Marseille community, among the first to listen to the interview in podcast and in particular on the YouTube channel of RMC Sport, noticed that a passage live out had been left at the end of the interview.

While they all thought they were off the air, @FlorianThauvin talks about the future of his son if he would have extended to Marseille.

Listen carefully until the end, you will hear the real @FlorianThauvin.

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– Emboucaneur_13 (@Emboucaneur_13) June 24, 2022

In it, we hear the interviewers, Jérôme Rothen and Jean-Louis Tourre, extend the discussion with the French world champion, now living in Mexico, and in particular on the reasons which led him to leave Marseille.

“I couldn't talk about it during the interview, explains Thauvin, but just for my son.

Today he is 2 years old, he speaks French with us, Spanish with the nanny, and he goes to school at the American School.

It's a crazy thing !

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To which the journalist Jean-Louis Tourre replies: “But in real life, you did not imagine yourself raising him in Marseille, right?

In the middle of the dingoes”.

Thauvin continues: "I'm honest, I can't say that on the air, but it's true that when I got the extension offer from OM, and they made me a contract crazy, I said to myself ''my son, he is 2 years old, it's not possible that he goes to school in Marseille, like that''.

And even me and my wife couldn't take it anymore.

We were in the apartment every day with the little one, we couldn't go out.

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The mayor of Marseille reacts, Tourre apologizes

The broadcast of this extract, supposed to remain between the interviewers of RMC and Florian Thauvin, caused a strong reaction within the Marseille community, as much on the use of the term "dingos" by Jean-Louis Tourre as by the reasons given by the player. to justify his departure.

"Good evening RMC Sport, for information: OM is the biggest French club, Marseille its most beautiful city and the Marseillais its most incredible people", reacted Benoît Payan, the mayor of Marseille.

Since then, RMC has deleted and then uploaded the podcast again to its distribution platforms, this time having taken care to cut the offending passage.

Nevertheless, Jean-Louis Tourre split a few words of apology.

"On the remarks at the end of Thauvin's itv.

It was of course not intended to be broadcast, reacted the RMC journalist in a tweet.

Now that this is the case, I regret the word "dingos" to qualify the Marseillais.

A familiarity to designate the particular context that we have to manage when we play at OM.

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"The comments of the journalist are inadmissible"

During the night, Florian Thauvin also posted an apology video on his Twitter account.

"I'm really disappointed, disgusted, I see it as a betrayal," he explains.

We do not reveal a private conversation publicly, but I will not give them more importance.

What is important for me is to come back to the subject and in particular to the journalist's remarks, which I do not agree with at all, which are inadmissible.

I made a mistake, because I did not react.

I should have defended ourselves and not let this pass.

For this, I apologize to all Marseillais.

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— Florian Thauvin (@FlorianThauvin) June 25, 2022

“As for the rest, I was just explaining that I had done the rounds in Marseille, that I needed a change in my life and that I was proud and happy to be able to offer the opportunity for my son to discover a new country, a new culture, and to learn several languages.

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