Racist acts against a Bayonne Crusader player during a football match in Béarn

Monkey cries with supporting gestures. This is what was victimized a 17-year-old football player from the Bayonne Crusaders teamduring an amateur meeting this Sunday, November 24. The match on the grounds of the commune of Siros in Béarn, counted for the Dargains departmental cup and pitted the senior C team of the Bayonne team against that of the Béarnaise star, when the referees interrupted due to the racist behavior of two supporters of the home team. The incident occurred in the 87th minute when the referees had just called a foul against the Bayonnais and given the young player a yellow card. The match was definitively stopped while the Bayonnais led 1-0.

In a press release published on social networks, the president of the Bayonne Crusaders Lionel Cabot explains that his player “Abdelmajd Njo Nchare was very affected by the brutality and violence of these actions.” The club adds that the young man was “perfectly surrounded by his teammates”. The Bayonne Crusaders club also wishes to highlight “the attitude of the refereeing trio who knew how to take their responsibilities by stopping the match in the face of these unspeakable actions and all the opposing players and managers who came to support our player.” The young Bayonne footballer lives in a home in the city and is monitored by educators. “Behavior of this type is unspeakable” deplores President Lionel Cabot.

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