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It was predictable and there were no surprises. La Marseillaise was booed at the Education City Stadium on Wednesday before the start of the Tunisia-France match. Given the troubled history between the two countries, it could be seen as a political gesture by Tunisian supporters who had already booed the French national anthem during a friendly in October 2008.

Scandalous“, President Sarkozy had taken at that time. His sports minister, Roselyn Bachelet, then decreed that “any meeting where our national anthem is played will be stopped immediately“, and some on the far right did not hesitate to jump to the restoration. “These French who whistle the national anthem prove that they are only paper French and that the integration of foreign masses into our culture is a failure because it is a utopia.“, for example, reported Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was called…

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