Heard by investigators, several former players of Christophe Galtier at OGC Nice and a former assistant reported particularly tendentious comments made by the Côte d’Azur coach, targeting Muslim players.
Exiled in Qatar, where he took the reins of Al-Duhail just a few months after his dismissal from PSG, Christophe Galtier is preparing to return to the spotlight. Consequence of his trial for discrimination and moral harassment which will begin on December 15 and follows the revelations of the former sports director of the Riviera club, Julien Fournier. The former Nice leader had accused the Marseille native of having repeatedly made racist remarks towards Muslim players.
An investigation was opened following these accusations and numerous players, current or former, as well as former assistants were questioned by the police. And according to the revelations of L’Equipe, these testimonies are most often damning. Frédéric Gioria, emblematic figure of the club and former assistant to the former midfielder, provided particularly edifying insight.
According to him, he was particularly angry when he learned of the arrival of Billal Brahimi. “ Another Muslim, I don’t want one, we’ve had enough “, he would have said, also describing Youcef Atal and Hicham Boudaoui as “dirty guys”. “ The worst are the Algerians », he would have confided to her another time.
If Christophe Galtier’s entourage did not fail to deny these accusations outright, highlighting ” his professional career and his reputation bear witness to his impeccable personality”, other testimonies overwhelm the Marseille technician, like that ofHachim Ali Mbaé, former video analyst, who allegedly heard the French technician qualified the pair of Saint-Étienne defenders, Harold Moukoudi and Mickaël Nadé, as two ” King Kong “. Jean-Clair Todibo would have mentioned pressure from Christope Galtier during Ramadan so that he breaks his fast.
