Patrice Evra is set to stand trial at the Paris Police court over a remark on his social media
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After the defeat of the French club, Evra launched an insult aimed at former PSG player Jérôme Rothen, with a comment that read: “Paris, you are fags, you are PDs… Here, it is the men who speak.”
The former Manchester United defender and captain, is now set to be tried on Monday, October 17, 2022, at the Paris Police court over homophobic remarks according to a report from Le Perisien.
However, Evra then posted a new message to apologize, ensuring that he was not homophobic.
But the associations ‘Mousse and Stop Homophobia’, supported by the anti-homophobia collective Rouge Direct, had filed a complaint, indicting him for “public insult to a group of people because of their sexual orientation”.
The report adds that the former France international had acknowledged before the judge that he had made the disputed remarks, referring to the facts that would have taken place on March 15, 2019, “the date of the birthday of footballer Paul Pogba”.
As per the report, the non-public insult inva’s in court now causes Patrice Evra to pay a fine of €1,500, and earned him to appear on Monday morning, October 17, before the Paris police court.
If the violation of public insult had been retained, Patrice Evra would have appeared before the correctional court and would have been liable to one year’s imprisonment of a fine of €45,000.
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