The rag is burning between the Paris town hall and Paris SG over the sale of the Parc des Princes to the French champion club and the fire is clearly not about to go out. In an interview with RMC Sport on Tuesday evening, PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaïfi suspected the municipality of blocking a possible sale process due to the nationality of the shareholder. ” For what? Because we are Qatar, because we are Arabs? No, that’s not good,” denounced the Parisian leader, referring to David Belliard’s intervention a few days earlier on Sud-Radio.
Comments which made the deputy (EELV) jump to the mayor of Paris, aligning with the position of the mayor, Anne Hidalgo (PS), opposed to the principle of a sale. At the microphone of Sud Radio, Belliard had indeed expressed an unambiguous position on the matter by affirming: “As a Parisian elected official, I will oppose any sale of the Park, whether to Qatar or to other countries. other private interests.”
Speaking this time to Le Parisien, the elected environmentalist did not hide his annoyance while providing a response to the boss of PSG: “Calling me racist amounts to defamation, and is not at the level of the issues of this important debate. Before adding: “I accept the fact that I will oppose the sale of this Parisian heritage to private interests, whatever their nationality. I believe that this must remain a common good and therefore a municipal good.”
Paris SG, which withdrew from the race to buy the Stade de France, wishes to continue at the Parc des Princes but plans to modernize the stadium in order to increase the number of seats. A project which would only be compatible after the purchase of the enclosure by the Qatari shareholder but the municipality is currently refusing any discussion in this direction.
