Paris Saint-Germain head coach Christophe Galtier and his son John Valovich-Galtier have been detained by Nice police on charges of racism. About it reports RMS Sport.
The detainees will stay in custody for 24 hours – that’s how much time investigators have to bring charges. If this is not done, the coach and his son will be released.
In mid-April, RMC Sport published excerpt from a leaked email Julien Fournier, who was the sporting director of Nice when Galtier worked there. In this letter, addressed to INEOS, which owns Nice, Fournier accused Galtier of racism. According to the former sporting director of the club, the coach told him that Nice “cannot have so many blacks and Muslims.” Trainer refuted all charges.
sport-express.ru, 06/30/2023, “PSG head coach arrested on racism case. He faces three years in prison”: Galtier strongly denied all accusations, and his lawyer Olivier Martin filed several libel suits against Fournier and the journalists who covered this story. In addition, a lawsuit was directed against those people who began to send death threats to the coach. Because of them, PSG even provided the Galtier family with protection – RMC Sport reported that the coach received more than 5 thousand calls and messages of relevant content. […] If the charges are proven, then Galtier faces a prison sentence – he can be convicted for up to three years, and also fined 45,000 euros. — Inset K.ru
A few days after the publication of RMC Sport, the Nice prosecutor’s office confirmed that it had opened a preliminary investigation on suspicion of “discrimination on the basis of alleged racial or religious affiliation.” The police then raided the office of Nice, city prosecutor Xavier Bonhomme said on Twitter.
Galtier headed PSG in the summer of 2022. The team won the French championship, but flew out to the 1/8 finals of the Champions League and 1/8 finals of the French Cup.
“Our team is not what people want”
Coach of FC Nice Galtier urged to take into account the “realities of the city”
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© Sports.ru04/12/2023, Galtier, while working at Nice, told the sporting director that the team “cannot have so many blacks and Muslims”
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[…] In September last year, Nice sporting director Julien Fournier said the reasons for his disagreement with the coach, who currently heads PSG, were “serious”. He did not elaborate on what exactly happened.
Now leading After Foot shows on RMC Sport read the emailwhich Fournier sent to INEOS, the owners of Nice.
“Recently, information has appeared that perhaps there is something [в отношении Гальтье]. Saturday after the match [«Ницца» — «ПСЖ»] I received the document that Julien Fournier wrote. Emails do not have headers. I told myself that we would take a week to check everything.
Meanwhile, Romain Molina was going through the mail we had received over the past three days. I sped up the process. Yes, the letter was indeed written by Julien Fournier to Dave Brailsford, director of football at INEOS. This letter is very long and very heavy,” said journalist Daniel Riolo.
He quoted an extract from Fournier’s letter.
“Christophe Galtier came to my office and greeted his son (Galtier’s son was also his father’s agent – Sports.ru), who told me: “You can check with my father the words that I conveyed.” As soon as his son left, I told Christophe about the conversation I had just had and asked him if it was all true.
He replied that yes, that I had to take into account the “realities of the city” and that we really can’t have so many blacks and Muslims on the team.
He [Гальтье] said to me, “Last night I went to a restaurant and everyone jumped on me saying that we have a team of blacks.” Then he added: “Julien, you must understand what city we are in, we are in the city of Jacques Medesin” (former mayor of Nice – Sports.ru), and our team does not correspond to what people want, just as it does not correspond to me himself.”
[У нас] there were no disputes about sports, there were only disputes about religion or skin color,” Julien Fournier wrote to the management of Nice.
