the coach of Paris Saint GermainChristophe Galtier, “denies with the utmost firmness” having referred to players in discriminatory terms when he commanded the Nicehis lawyer said on Wednesday in a statement transmitted to AFP.
The French coach, who left Nice for PSG at the end of last season, “was stunned by the insulting and defamatory statements” allegedly denounced by former Nice coach Julien Fournier in an internal email echoed by various media outlets on Tuesday, said lawyer Olivier Martin, who announced that “legal actions” would be taken.
The independent journalist Romain Molina, and later the portal RMC Sports, spoke of the existence of an email written at the end of last season in which Julien Fournier denounced some discriminatory words by Christophe Galtier in relation to a part of the Nice dressing room, in which he would have alluded to his origins and his religion, shortly after get to Nice.
This message, which AFP failed to authenticate, would have been sent by Julien Fournier to Dave Brailsford, Director of Sports at Ineos, the petrochemical group that owns the club in the south of France.
“Taking into account the seriousness of the accusations made against him, which he denies with the utmost firmness, Christophe Galtier has immediately resorted to his lawyer, Olivier Martin, so that he promptly proceeds with the necessary legal actions, all the more taking into account that since this disclosure is the target of intolerable threats and acts of harassment,” the lawyer wrote in the statement.
Julien Fournier, who left Nice in July 2022, claims, for his part, that he was not involved in the dissemination of the email, although he does not seem to deny its existence.
“Currently I am in Brazil, far from this controversy in which I find myself unfortunately plunged. In no case am I behind the disclosure of this internal information,” he said in a statement transmitted to the AFP.
Source: Gazetaesportiva
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