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A GIGANTIC BANNER proclaiming “Free Palestine” unfurled by Paris Saint-Germain supporters at a Champions League match has no place in a football stadium, France’s interior minister said on Thursday.
It was shown as Israel presses military operations against Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza and the militant Shiite group Hezbollah in Lebanon and international concern grows over civilian casualties. Advertisement “If this were to happen again, we will have to consider forbidding banners for clubs that do not enforce the rules,” he added.
The banner, which was unfurled by the Paris Ultras Collective hard-core fan group, was shown above another slogan which read: “War on the pitch but peace in the world.” The president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, Yonathan Arfi, described the banner as “scandalous”, saying it depicted “a masked Palestinian fighter” and that it also showed “a map where the State of Israel no longer exists” in an image of the Palestinian keffiyeh.Hamas’s 7 October, 2023, attack on Israel that escalated the war in Gaza resulted in 1,206 deaths, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
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