Several professional football players were kicked out with tweets showing a lack of sympathy for Israel’s Hamas victims. Above all, Karim Benzema. The criticism comes from high circles in home country France: the Minister of the Interior accuses the world footballer of contacts with a terrorist organization, and a senator even calls for expulsion if there is truth in it. Sad culmination of an eternal ‘misunderstanding’ that started in the slums around Lyon…
A public housing apartment in Terraillon, Bron County. Hafid and Wahida live here with their nine children. The extended family is confronted with a bleak daily life in the ‘banlieus’ of Lyon, as the suburbs of major French cities are called: exclusion, poverty, street crime.
Source: Krone
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