While the Ligue 1 match between Clermont and Brest was going smoothly on Sunday, Brest striker Islam Slimani rushed to the fourth referee, before the break, to report to him that he had been the victim of a character insult. racist from one of the opposing players. “He called me a dirty Arab,” he repeated twice.
The match over, Islam Slimani spoke at the microphone of France Bleu Breizh Izel, showing his dismay at such remarks and somewhat correcting the insult he said he had been the target of: “It’s serious these days to be called a dirty bastard. I’m proud to be from Blédard, I’m proud to be Algerian […] I’m not crazy, I’m not going to accuse wrongly ”.
For his part, the captain of Clermont Johan Gastien, designated as the alleged author of these remarks by Islam Slimani, reacted to this accusation: “He says a lot of things, I am calm in my skin. Never in my life would I say that”.
On the verge of tears, the Clermont captain later regretted being the target of such an accusation: “The problem in this story is that it is I who passes for an idiot. […] and I don’t like it. I stand for things that are against that and it pisses me off. »
