The players of the French team are still reacting to the death of young Naël. After having supported the family of the young man and condemned the policeman in question, the Blues are now calming the game against the backdrop of increasingly violent urban riots in France.
The death of young Naël (17), Tuesday in Nanterre, never ceases to stir up French public opinion. Citizens like the others, the players of the French team were not left out in this affair. Captain Kylian Mbappé had ” bad for his France while Jules Koundé and Mike Maignan were much more incisive. The Barcelona defender could not digest a ” new police blunder » in his own words, nor the media treatment of this news item. Their detractors, including some politicians, did not appreciate this sharp and favorable speech to the young Naël. This did not get better after the urban riots multiplied in France, gaining in intensity in recent hours.
The Blues call the young people to a truce
A very tense context that must end now. Very listened to by young people, the players of the French team sent a message on social networks this Friday. Posted by certain elements including Benjamin Pavard on Instagram, the long text urges young French people to end the violence and choose a peaceful path of appeasement.
“The time of violence must end”
The players of the France team launched this Friday an appeal for calm via their personal social networks after the numerous riots which have affected the whole country since the death of young Nahel. https://t.co/BT1vQZxpcT pic.twitter.com/lvtRc7np1J
— THE TEAM (@theteam) June 30, 2023
” Since this tragic event, we have been witnessing the expression of popular anger whose substance we understand, but whose form we cannot endorse. Coming for many of us from working-class neighborhoods, these feelings of pain and sadness, we also share them. (…) Violence solves nothing, even less when it inevitably and tirelessly turns against those who express it, their families, relatives and neighbours. It is your property that you are destroying, your neighborhoods, your cities, your places of fulfillment and proximity. (…) Our civic conscience encourages us to call for appeasement, awareness and accountability. (…) There are other peaceful and constructive ways to express yourself. The time of violence must end to make way for that of mourning, dialogue and reconstruction. THE FRENCH TEAM “, they write among others. Will their aura be enough to calm the situation? In any case, they give themselves the means to hope.
