Images of players with their hands on their mouths and two fingers on their temples are multiplying.
After the Congolese national team during CAN 2024, and Romelu Lukaku this Thursday with AS Rome, it was Paris Saint-Germain defender Presnel Kimpembe who spoke this Friday evening.
On his social networks, the Frenchman, of Congolese origin through his father, published a photo of himself accompanied by a message to denounce the war taking place in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
A conflict that has remained silent despite NGO alerts for several months.
“The situation is inhumane.
Silence is unacceptable, wrote the 2018 world champion. A genocide is currently taking place in eastern Congo, lives are taken every day.
Women, men and children live in unimaginable conditions and suffer atrocities to the point of losing their lives.
I do not speak only as a Congolese through my father but out of humanity.
It is our mothers and our children who die every day in this massacre, it is essential to talk about it so that things change.
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— Presnel Kimpembe (@kimpembe_3) February 16, 2024
Absent from the field for several months due to an Achilles tendon injury, which required him to have a new operation in December, Presnel Kimpembe took the opportunity "to send a sincere thought to all the peoples who are suffering genocides in throughout the world, there are no lives more important than others.”
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Actions to talk about this war in DR Congo have been increasing for several days.
After the strong gesture of the Congolese internationals during their national anthem in the semi-final of the African Cup of Nations, several athletes wanted to warn about the situation.
This Thursday, a minute of silence was also observed during the Impulstar event in the new hall of the Adidas Arena.