jeudi 12 mai 2011

Anti-discrimination body slams French race row outcome

PARIS (AFP) - A French anti-discrimination organisation on Thursday launched a complaint over the handling of the dual-nationality quota row by the French Football Federation (FFF) and the French sports ministry.



The Representative Council of Black Associations (CRAN) claimed that the clearing ofBlanc was on Tuesday cleared of racial discrimination demonstrated that the two bodies wanted "to bury the case".

"Today we are taking a serious decision: in the case of the French Football Federation, we are making a complaint," wrote CRAN spokesperson Louis-Georges Tin in Thursday's edition of Le Monde.

"Clearly, everything was done to bury the case."

Tin also expressed surprise that "the Minister of Sports (Chantal Jouanno) declared her public support for Laurent Blanc, even though he hadn't yet been interviewed!"

CRAN are asking for a judicial inquiry to be launched.

Blanc was on Tuesday cleared of racial discrimination following a two-pronged inquiry by the FFF and the sports ministry.

The investigation was launched after the Mediapart website released a transcript of a meeting last November in which Blanc and French officials discussed introducing quotas on the number of dual-nationality players at youth training centres.

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