Since the death of the 17-year-old young man, riots have shaken the country. Passing through Béziers on Friday, the tricolor captain of the XV of France Antoine Dupont did not escape a question about the current chaos. The star of the Blues first gave his support to those close to Nahel. “It is very sad to see a young man lose his life in these conditions, said the Toulousain to the daily Midi Libre. There are no other words. These are things that shouldn’t happen.”
Before launching an appeal for calm in a press release published late Friday evening, executives of the French football team had expressed their indignation hotly on social networks. “I hurt my France”, had notably dropped on twitter Kylian Mbappe. Antoine Dupont is much more measured: “I don’t know the context or the daily life in these cities, footballers are perhaps more sensitive to that. In any case, we cannot condone it. We can only support remotely. But what is our support for a mother who has just lost her son, not much.
