The news shocked the country. And provoked a night of violence in the Paris region. Tuesday a young man of 17 years was killed after a refusal to comply by a policeman in Nanterre. Some French players, including captain Kylian Mbappé, wanted to speak out on the subject to send a message of support to those close to Naël, others like Jules Koundé, to rant.
“I have pain in my France. An unacceptable situation. All my thoughts go out to the family and loved ones of Naël, this little angel who left much too soon,” French team captain Kylian Mbappé slipped on his Twitter account this Wednesday morning.
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The FC Barcelona defender expressed his anger underlining a major societal problem according to him. “A 17-year-old young man shot dead at point-blank range by a police officer for refusing to comply during a check. This is the reality of the situation and it is dramatic” can we read on his Twitter account since late Tuesday evening.
The former Sevillian also made no secret of his misunderstanding of the media treatment of the case, attacking in particular “continuous news channels”. “As if this new police blunder was not enough, the continuous news channels are making a big deal out of it. Sets disconnected from reality, “journalists” who ask “questions” with the sole aim of distorting the truth, criminalizing the victim and finding extenuating circumstances where there are none. A method as old as the world to hide the real problem. Why don’t we turn off the TV for a bit to get informed? concluded the tricolor international.
For his part, the goalkeeper of the Blues, Mike Maignan, who plays for AC Milan but was trained at PSG, also spoke this Wednesday morning. “A bullet in the head … It’s always for the same that being in the wrong leads to death, he wrote on social networks. For Naël, for his mother.
