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The club Paris Saint Germain ( PSG), who claims to have discovered just a month ago that ethnic criteria were used to sign young promises, opened an internal investigation and promised sanctions as soon as responsibilities were established.

Its managing director, Jean-Claude Blanc, in a double interview published Friday by the French newspapers "L'Equipe" and "Le Parisien", confirmed that the entity had learned a month ago that it was not possible to find a company. existence of chips in which She cataloged the players in four categories: French, Maghrebian, West Indian and African.

White said that since then, they have launched an internal investigation that has hired two lawyers outside the club and waiting for results within two weeks.

He stated that before "person" and "at any time" had informed the management of the use of these cards.

However, he admitted that in 2014, they had received "an alert regarding ambiguous statements at a meeting of the training department" of Marc Westerloppe, responsible for recruiting young promises since 2013.

According to the leaks of "Football Leaks", Westerloppe felt at this meeting that there was "too much West Indian and African" in the club and that the management wanted more French .

In the talks published today, Mr. White said that he had summoned Westerloppe in 2014 to see if his "ambiguous statements were true", but "he denied it accurately" and has estimated at the end of the meeting that "there was no evidence to return it, not even sanction."

The director assured that the president of the Paris club, Naser Al-Khelaïfi, was not aware of the situation and that he had only warned when the management had been informed, there is a month, through the journalists who had provided them with evidence, that We used tokens with ethnic criteria.

The French Minister of Sports, Roxana Maracineanu, said today in a statement to the channel "FranceInfo" that, if "certain" facts, the facts could lead to "disciplinary sanctions, even criminal".

French law punishes up to five years imprisonment and 300,000 euros fine for "collection or processing of personal data directly or indirectly including the racial or ethnic origins of people".