Laurent Ruquier defends Mbappé’s laughter and Galtier’s “sailing tank” in “C à vous”

Everybody talks about it. Monday evening, Laurent Ruquier was the guest of Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine in“C to You”. Came to promote his new play I prefer that we stay togetherthe host was asked about the PSG controversy that had occurred a few hours earlier.

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Last Saturday, to get to the match against FC Nantes, the Parisian club used a private jet. During a press conference given on Monday, September 5, from the Parc des Princes, to discuss the Champions League, a response on the environmental theme caused a national outcry. To the question of the LCI journalist, Paul Larrouturou, on the possibility of taking the train instead of a plane to make a trip from Paris to Nantes, the reactions are clear. Based on a tweet from the SNCF director who “renewed its TGV offer proposal” Paris Saint-Germain footballers. Spontaneously, Kylian Mbappé and his trainer Christophe Galtier are seized with a fit of laughter for several seconds. The player even goes so far as to collapse on his table. The team coach pulls himself together before sarcastically explaining “to think about move around in a sand yacht » . Same story for the 23-year-old athlete who in a burst of laughter proclaims “don’t think anything about it”.

Back on the set of “C à Vous”, in a section “Express Info”, Laurent Ruquier is invited to react. “I understand them”he assures, while defending himself from wanting “revive the controversy”. “In this case, let’s cancel the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, which will be played in the middle of winter in air-conditioned stadiums. We stop everything at that moment”deciphers the host of France 2 who announced stop “We’re live ” Saturday evening. Laurent Ruquier is understanding and concedes that he “there’s something to laugh about”.

“Anne-Élisabeth, let’s both rent a TGV with a barbecue. I’ll turn it on, it’s normal, it’s masculine”, he concludes lightly. An allusion to other recent polemical remarks, those of the deputy Sandrine Rousseau, who associated the barbecue with “a symbol of virility”.