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A gigantic banner proclaiming “Free Palestine” unfurled by Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) supporters at a Champions League match has no place in a football stadium, France’s interior minister said on Thursday.
The huge banner covered an entire section of the stadium at PSG’s home venue of Parc des Princes in Paris Wednesday night ahead of their defeat at the hands of Spanish side Atletico Madrid.
As well as the slogan “Free Palestine”, the banner showed a bloodstained Palestinian flag, a gesticulating man with a keffiyeh scarf covering all his face except his eyes, the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem and a young boy wrapped in the Lebanese flag.
“This banner had no place in this stadium,” right-wing Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau wrote on X.
“I ask PSG to explain itself and the clubs to ensure that politics does not come to damage sport, which must always remain a source of unity,” he said.
“If this were to happen again, we will have to consider forbidding banners for clubs that do not enforce the rules,” he added.
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