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PARIS (AP) — The French Football Federation has asked national team defender Jean-Clair Todibo to explain why he laughed during a minute of silence before a Euro 2024 qualifying match last week.
Published on: 10/16/2023 – 16:39 Last updated: 10/16/2023 – 16:37
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French national football team defender Jean-Clair Todibo (centre) during a meeting with fans before a training session in preparation for the European Cup 2024 qualifiers. Clairefontaine-en-Yvolines, on September 5, 2023 © Frank Fife / AFP
The 23-year-old Nice defender was filmed laughing during a minute of silence for the victims of the ongoing war between the Palestinian Hamas movement and Israel.
The minute of silence that preceded France’s 2-1 victory over the Netherlands on Friday in Amsterdam was in honor of a teacher who was killed last week in the city of Arras in northern France in a crime that the government classified as an Islamic terrorist attack.
On Monday, the Ethics Council of the French Football Federation sent a letter to Todibo demanding clarifications, according to what its president, Patrick Anton, told AFP.
Todibo is in the squad that will face Scotland on Tuesday in a friendly match in Lille.
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2023-10-16 14:39:09
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