Adrien Rabiot: Marseille condemn ‘personal attacks’ on midfielder in PSG defeat
Marseille condemns “personal attack” against midfielder Adrien Rabiot and his family 3-1 failure in Paris Saint-Germain On Sunday.
The Parc des Princes’s game is obscured by some PSG fans and banners targeting Rabiot and his family – a quotation of Marseille’s massive Arabs.
Rabiot accused PSG fans of insulting his father, who died in 2019. The player’s mother and agent Veronique Rabiot filed a complaint.
“Personal attacks, especially against Adrien Rabiot and his family, are mean and unacceptable,” Marseille said.
“The club wants to provide full support and solidarity to the midfielder and his loved ones, announcing that it joins a complaint filed by Adrien Rabiot’s family against unknown people.”
The club said they will “continue to remain uncompromising and rigid in any abusive remarks targeting the club, management, employees or supporters”.
The Paris-born French midfielder made 227 appearances for PSG between 2012 and 2019 and joined rival Marseille after leaving Juventus last summer.
French referees can stop the game if supporters shout homophobia or racist slander in the stadium, but Sunday’s official Clement Turpin did not.
“I don’t understand why the game didn’t stop,” Rabiot’s mother told French Radio.
“I don’t understand why no one is angry. Why are some games stopped and not others?”
