The Parisian coach and Kylian Mbappé laughed after being asked about the club’s private jet trips.
The sequence comes as France prepares to experience an energy crisis and a winter that the executive announces will be difficult. When asked about the PSG team’s frequent trips by private jet, coach Christophe Galtier and Kylian Mbappé responded with laughter. “We’re trying to see if we can’t get around in a sand yacht“, quipped Galtier. A mockery that the political class was quick to castigate.
Anne Hidalgo, on the front line. “No, but it’s not okay to answer such things???? Wake up guys??? This is Paris“, tweeted the socialist mayor of the capital. And soon followed by the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra: “You have accustomed us to more relevant and responsible answers – are we talking about it?” If Bruno Le Maire says “love” Mbappé and if, according to the Minister of the Economy this morning on BFMTV, “it can happen to all of us to have a giggle at the least opportune moment», «we need to take global warming seriously“.
On CNEWS, Agnès Pannier-Runacher believes that the reaction of the player and the coach “shows how far they are from the stakes of the global warming”. “It’s not laughable, it’s shocking to make it anecdotalregrets the Minister for Energy Transition. Before specifying that asobriety planexisted in the sporting world and thatPSG is not above the law and these considerations“.
“Your contempt is a spit in the face. You are pathetic and sad. It’s also your children’s planet that burns“, lamented the mayor of Marseille Benoît Payan. “PSG is a private company that manages its funds as it sees fit“, for his part swept Louis Aliot on France Info.
On the left, several deputies showed their anger. Starting with Clémentine Autain, regretting the “contemptfrom the PSG coach and player. “This disconnect from emergencies and what we are going through is appalling“, pointed the deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis on Twitter. “Imagine their reaction when they find out that the next world Cup is in Qatar in air-conditioned stadiums, with human rights shattered and 6,500 workers deadadded Sandrine Rousseau. The giggles of their lives.“Guest on France Inter, François Ruffin believes that”there should be no private jets doing Paris-Nantes. It is necessary to bring the elites down to earth.»
The PSG coach has however found a defender in the person of Eric Ciotti. “We have the right to a little humor (…) I have the impression that we care about the foam and that we do not look at the sea, to use the formula of Paul Valery (…) I would not make a story of it“. The deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes believes that the controversy is “of the anecdote in relation to the seriousness of the subject“: “We will solve climate problems through long-term policy, research, science, progress“.
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