Football Nicolas Anelka: 5 game suspension for his quenelle

Nicolas Anelka makes the gesture that has mired West Bromwich Albion in controversy.The penalty is finally dropped. For his quenelle executed after his double strike on December 28 against West Ham, Nicolas Anelka has been sanctioned five -game suspension with his club West Bromwich.

The former Arsenal player was heard by the Disciplinary Committee of the FA since the beginning of the week. It scopes apart from the 5 games a 80,000 pounds fine .

This case has caused considerable controversy in France. Artist Dieudonné, author of this qualified gesture qualified as “anti Semitic” was banned from traveling to England. Anelka had protested his innocence: “The Football Association has hired an expert to decide the meaning of my quenelle … This concluded that my gesture has an anti-Semitic connotation, which led to my indictment by the FA. It would have been legitimate if this expert was a French living in France, and may have an accurate knowledge of my actions. What an expert better than Mr. Cukierman, president of CRIF (Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France), who explains very clearly that my dumpling could not be regarded as anti-Semitic! He also explained precisely and when the gesture could have such a connotation. I therefore kindly ask the English Federation to remove the charges alleged against me. And I repeat, I am neither anti-Semitic nor racist.”


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