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The spectacle of the Champions League final was shaded by the extremist movement that has grown in Germany

In the hours preceding the Champions League final between PSG and Inter, French and Italian fans, with or without tickets, invaded the center of Munich. The focal points were Odeonsplatz, the place where the fanzone of “Nerazzurilor”, Konigsplatz, the fans of the team from “The City of Lights”, and Marienplatz, where the “yellow wall” last year during the European Championship.

In the first of these, Odeonsplatz, GSP reporters assisted at a bizarre time. The DJ that mixed on the stage next to the huge screen, where the match was later broadcast, at one point put the song “L'amour Toujours”, belonging to Gigi d'Gostino.

The respective piece, launched in 1999, was viral throughout last year's European Championship due to reprobate reasons.

Then, the extremist right-wing supporters added to the electronic song: “Deutschland Fur Deutschen! Auslander Raus!” In free translation: “Germany for the Germans! Out with the strangers”, the message Xenophob is perfectly suitable on the cadence of the song.

VIDEO. “L'amour Toujours”, before the Champions League final

Today, several German supporters present in the proximity of the market have repeated the scenes last year, setting the tone of the same scandals, when this song resounded inside the fanzone-one, although the “nerazzurrii” sang something else. Moreover, a supporter from Inter showed them the sign “Ok”, giving them the approval, and presented them the message from a sticker stuck on the bag: “Gli gli strangers!”, That is “outside with strangers”, the Italian version of the same message.

Message has an anti-immigration and Islamophobic substrateand various videos on social networks that use this sound are associated with Muslim images in various social contexts on the territory of Germany.

In 2024, hit became a kind of “axis mundi” among thousands of supporters moved for the European Championship, shading the football show. Initially, he spread in the form of a meme, being quickly taken over by those with extremist visions. Not only the Germans adopted the song, but also the Hungarians or Serbs.

Germany is the country with most immigrants in the European Unionwith 17 million, according to the latest data. It is followed by France (9.3 million), Spain (8.8 million) and Italy (6.7 million).

Ashley Davis

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