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Tunisia-France: the Marseillaise whistled? Anything but a political event

2022-11-30T15:34:44.767Z


MOOD - If we can regret them, the Tunisian whistles against the French anthem should not be taken out of the context of sport. And still recovered...


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It was predictable and there were no surprises: La Marseillaise was whistled at the Education City Stadium on Wednesday before the start of Tunisia-France.

In view of the tormented history between the two countries, one could see a political gesture from the Tunisian supporters, who had already whistled the French anthem during a friendly match which caused a lot of ink to flow in October. 2008.

Scandalous

”, had carried away the president Sarkozy at the time.

Its Minister of Sports, Roselyne Bachelot then decreed that "

any match where our national anthem will be whistled will be immediately stopped

", and some on the far right did not hesitate to switch to recovery.

"

These French who whistle the national anthem prove that they are only paper Frenchmen, and that the integration of masses foreign to our culture is a failure because it is a utopia

", had for example pointed out Jean- Marie Le Pen, president of what was called…

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Source: lefigaro

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