Dismissed on November 6, 2023 from his position as coach of the Orléans football club after making racist remarks, Bernard Casoni was finally sentenced to a fine of 25,000 euros, including 15,000 euros suspended, for public insult of a racist nature, according to the deliberations of the Orléans court rendered this Thursday, January 9, 2025.
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-For Bernard Casoni, the affair begins on September 21, 2023 during a press conference on the eve of a match between the USO and Châteauroux. To a question about the difficulties the team would encounter, the coach replied: “They have things where they are excellent. But there are things where it’s not enough. (…) My role is to tell them, show them and help them solve the problems. (…) I did it in all the clubs I went to, I did it with North Africans! They are no more stupid than North Africans, eh…” according to comments reported by “ici Orléans” (formerly France Bleu Orléans). In the process, the public prosecutor Emmanuelle Bochenek-Puren indicated that she had opened an investigation for incitement to hatred or racial discrimination and for public insults of a racist nature.
replacement by Karim Mokkedem.The hearing for these allegedly racist remarks was held on Thursday, November 14, 2024, in the absence of the main person concerned, then in post for two months at SC Gagnoa, a club in the Ivorian second division. --Related News :