French Champion Club, Paris St-German has been fined 100,000 euros (£87,691) for racially profiling and recruiting youth players.
A French website, Mediapart made an investigation and published a document showing the fact that signings of players being identified by their ethnicity.
This accusation has been charge to be against the French law which states that “collecting personal data revealing an individual’s racial or ethnic origins is prohibited”
A decision was reached by the LFP after hearing from former officials involved in PSG’s recruitment between 2013 and 2018.
Scouts for the Ligue 1 champions were allegedly asked, for every player observed, to choose one of four options on an electronic drop-down menu: French, North African, black African or West Indian.
The French league (LFP) disciplinary commission, which issued the fine, said PSG did not use the data for discriminatory purposes.
In November, the club acknowledged and condemned the existence of the files revealed by Mediapart.
“There is no case of discrimination that can be proved,” LFP disciplinary commissioner Sebastien Deneux said at a press conference.
“It is more a case of individual clumsiness and collective negligence.”
PSG previously said the club’s general management did not know there was an ethnic registration system in a recruitment department.
And the LFP said that PSG general manager Jean-Claude Blanc had not been sanctioned.
“From what we can see, PSG did not use the information on ethnicity for discriminatory ends,” Deneux said.
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