PSG coach faces discrimination probe | The Express Tribune
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NICE: Paris Saint-Germain coach Christophe Galtier will face trial in December as a result of an investigation into alleged discrimination, the Nice prosecutor said on Friday. The 56-year-old Galtier and his son John Valovic-Galtier – a player's agent – were taken in for questioning earlier in the day following an investigation launched in April, after claims the coach made racist and Islamophobic remarks about players when he coached Nice in the 2021/22 season. At a hearing on Friday, Galtier "denied the offences of which he could be accused", said the public prosecutor Xavier Bonhomme in a press release. Galtier will stand trial on December 15 before the Nice Criminal Court "on charges of moral harassment and discrimination on the grounds of actual or supposed membership or non-membership of a particular ethnic group, nation, alleged race or religion", the prosecutor said. The offences are punishable by three years' imprisonment and a 4