On the set of Do not touch My TV, this January 12, Patrice Evra assured Cyril Hanouna that he did not regret having hit an OM supporter in 2017.
Patrice Evra gives a strong testimony on the sexual assaults he suffered as a teenager in his book I love this game. For the first time, he brought up this difficult subject on television yesterday in C to you. “The head teacher, believing that I was asleep, put his hands under my bedspread and tried to touch me. I knew what he was doing was wrong and tried to push him away and hit him. I was strong but I was scared too even though I couldn’t show him that I was scared of him. It lasted 10 or 15 minutes, like a fight “, he says in his book. But the footballer also evokes racism and homophobia in the world of football. He is also setting the record straight on a case that caused much ink to flow during the 2010 World Cup. “I keep making it clear, because there are a lot of people who say ‘Why didn’t you get off the bus?’, we got off the bus! “, he hammered on the France 5 plateau.
Patrice Evra hit an OM supporter in 2017
Points that he mentioned again in Do not touch My TV. Cyril Hanouna asked his guest if he regretted having kicked an OM supporter in 2017. Images of rare violence which had shocked many at the time and which had earned him to leave the club. “Violence, I will regret all the time, because it happened in front of the cameras”, he said in the preamble. “Corn I do not regret, because this supporter was not a supporter of Marseille, let that be clear. I spent incredible years in Marseille “, he wanted to justify himself. The former captain of the Blues even indicated that he recommended this club to other players: “It’s crazy !”
“He soiled the image of Marseille”
To justify his gesture, Patrice Evra returned to the terrible insults that this supporter had uttered against him. “He treated me: ‘Stop gesturing like a monkey’. So far I’m used to it, but that’s when he told me: ‘I’m going to cut the throats of your children when you come back to Marseille’. And me, I am a human being. I am not a robot. You touch me. He took. I even still have the traces of his beard on my pair of shoes. It is not something that I will regret, because it has tarnished the image of Marseille“, he concluded.
Do not touch My TV, to be found in full on the application myCANAL