Red Star coach Habib Beye denounced “mimes” and “monkey cries” against several of his players during the National championship match (3rd division) played on Wednesday October 11 in Nancy, and called for sanctions against their perpetrators.
“When I have three of my players who come to see me and say to me “coach, they are miming monkey noises and all that”, for me it is unacceptable”, declared Habib Beye at the microphone of Canal at the end of the match, which ended with a score of parity (1-1).
Very upset, the coach of the Ile-de-France club, current leader of the National championship, criticized carelessness on the subject.
“We let things like this happen in stadiums (…). I have people who tell me today that we must not make things worse, that things are like that. In fact, we have trivialized all these situations. Today, the football match does not interest me, the point [taken on the field] does not interest me… It is erased in my memory,” he said.
The former Senegalese international, who played in Strasbourg, Marseille and England in the years 1990 to 2010, says he hopes for testimonies and sanctions: “If we let things like that happen, we won’t move forward (…). And, what’s more, afterwards, we have players from Nancy who will greet their audience, that’s good… I hope that this audience will be sanctioned, that there will be images, sounds or people who will come and testify. »
The AS Nancy Lorraine club did not immediately react.