Paris prosecutors to probe Paraguayan lawmaker’s Mbappe remarks
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July 7, 2026
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PARIS, France (AFP) — Paris’ public prosecutor said on Tuesday it had opened an investigation into a Paraguayan lawmaker’s comments about France football captain Kylian Mbappe.
Celeste Amarilla, a member of the main opposition Liberal Party, called Mbappe a “colonised Cameroonian who has really pretended to be French, embittered, nouveau riche, arrogant and ugly” after France beat Paraguay 1-0 on Saturday to reach the World Cup quarter-finals.
The prosecutor made the decision after the French Football Federation (FFR) filed a complaint to France’s national centre for fighting online hate.
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