Following his coach’s remarks on air travel, the NGO awarded a “climate red card” to the Parisian club before the kick-off of the Champions League match against Juventus.
A dozen activists from the NGO Greenpeace unfurled three banners and a sand yacht near the PSG stadium at the end of the afternoon, to protest against the remarks of club coach Christophe Galtier on the use of tanks sailing in the movements of the PSG, instead of private planes very emitting carbon. “PSG: climatic red card“, and “climate no more time to laugh about it“, could we read on the banners, deployed in front of a blue sand yacht with a bright orange sail.
The words of Christophe Galtier and the giggles of club star Kylian Mbappé who accompanied them sparked a storm of indignant reactions. “They must put their ability to influence at the service of the fight against the climate crisis and not the other way around“, declared during the action the director of Greenpeace France, Jean-François Julliard, calling on Kylian Mbappé to “put his image and his influence at the service of this fight (for the climate), he has a visibility and an aura throughout the world that he should put at the service of this fight“.
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On the background “we know that (PSG) not going to be able to do everything by train or more energy-efficient transport, but that the PSG coach with the team’s best-known player does not care so much about a question about this climate crisis, this not possible,he continued. Mehdi, a 16-year-old supporter of PSG, says to himself “Okaywith the message of the action but adds: “why not tell all the clubs? All L1 clubs do the same“.