PSG To Limit Political Messaging Following 'Free Palestine' Banner incident

Paris Saint-Germain has stated that they are committed to ensuring that an incident like the unfurling of a "Free Palestine" banner at the Parc des Princes will not happen again. The banner, which covered an entire section of the stadium, featured the slogan "Free Palestine", a bloodstained Palestinian flag, a gesticulating man with a keffiyeh scarf, the Al-Aqsa mosque, and a young boy wrapped in the Lebanese flag. PSG suffered a defeat at the hands of Atletico Madrid on Wednesday night.

On Friday, after a meeting with the French football federation and government officials, Qatari-owned PSG promised to "guarantee the absence of political messages" in the stands.

"A frank and constructive dialogue made it possible to identify solutions that PSG is committed to putting in place from the next match at the Parc des Princes," a government spokesperson told AFP.

The banner, which was unfurled by the Paris Ultras Collective (CUP) hard-core fan group, was shown above another slogan which read: "War on the pitch but peace in the world."

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"The club was not aware of the plan to display such a message," PSG said in a statement Wednesday evening. 

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