仏代表選手が人種差別被害に、カタールＷ杯決勝のＰＫ失敗後に

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】フランスサッカー連盟（ＦＦＦ）は２０日、Ｗ杯カタール大会に出場した代表メンバーのうち数人が、ＳＮＳで「憎むべき」人種差別の標的になったと発表し、法的措置を検討していると明かした。（写真は、サッカーＷ杯カタール大会決勝に臨んだフランスのキリアン・エムバペ〈右〉とキングスレイ・コマン）
　人種差別の標的になったのは、１８日に行われたアルゼンチンとの決勝のＰＫ戦で、キックを外したキングスレイ・コマンとオーレリアン・チュアメニ。フランスは０－２と２－３からそれぞれ追いついて試合をＰＫ戦に持ち込んだが、激戦の末に敗れた。大会期間中、チームはフランス国民の大半から大きな信頼を集め、カタールから戻ってコンコルド広場で行ったセレモニーでも、約５万人が選手を歓迎した。
　ＦＦＦはＳＮＳを使って差別を行った人間を強い言葉で非難し、代表チームのツイッターアカウントで「Ｗ杯決勝後に、代表選手数人が差別主義者と、受け入れがたいほど憎むべきＳＮＳでの発言で標的にされた」と発表し、「ＦＦＦは彼らを非難し、そうした発言の投稿者を告訴するつもりだ」と続けた。
　政治家もこの件にすぐさま反応して差別を非難すると、野党社会党は訴訟を起こすようＦＦＦに促した。イザベル・ローム首相付女男平等・多様性・機会均等担当大臣は、差別を「受け入れがたい」と表現した。
　フランス代表の選手が人種差別の標的になるのは、これが初めてではない。決勝でハットトリックを達成したキリアン・エムバペは、欧州選手権のスイス戦でＰＫを失敗した後に差別の標的になった。
　また欧州選手権では、イタリアとの決勝でＰＫを失敗したイングランド代表のマーカス・ラシュフォード、ジェイドン・サンチョ、ブカヨ・サカの黒人３選手も、インターネット上で大量の中傷を浴びた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/12/22-20:19）

Several members of the France team that lost to Argentina in the World Cup final were subjected to hateful racist abuse on social media, the French Football Federation (FFF) said on Tuesday, adding it intended to file a legal complaint.
The abuse aimed at Kingsley Coman and Aurelien Tchouameni, who missed their penalties in the penalty shootout, echoed that received by three England players following the Euro 2020 final loss to Italy last year.
French football chiefs issued a strongly worded statement on Tuesday castigating the abusers, who took to social media after a pulsating final which saw France come back from 2-0 and 3-2 down to take it to a penalty shootout.
The team gained much credit with the majority of French people during the tournament and around 50,000 greeted them in Place de la Concorde on Monday on their return from Qatar.
At the end of the World Cup final several players from the French team were subjected to racist and unacceptably hateful remarks on social media, the FFF tweeted on the France football team Twitter account.
The FFF condemns them and will lodge a complaint against the authors of those remarks.
Coman -- whose introduction in the second-half by coach Didier Deschamps sparked a French revival -- has already had his club German champions Bayern Munich leap to his defence.
FC Bayern strongly condemn the racist comments made towards Kingsley Coman, they tweeted on Monday.
The FC Bayern family is behind you, King. Racism has no place in sport or our society.
Politicians were quick to condemn the abuse with the opposition Socialist Party urging the FFF to lodge a complaint.
Isabelle Rome, minister for equality and diversity, described the abuse as unacceptable.
I condemn these remarks with the utmost vigour, she tweeted.
This is not the first time the French team has been targeted.
Kylian Mbappe -- who scored a hat-trick in Sunday's match -- was abused after he missed a penalty in the shootout loss to Switzerland in the last 16 Euro 2020 clash.
Following the Euro 2020 final, English players Jadon Sancho, Bukayo Saka and Marcus Rashford who are all black, received a torrent of online abuse after failing to score their penalties as England failed to win their first trophy since the 1966 World Cup.
British police made several arrests following that and one man was jailed for 10 weeks.