France's racially diverse football team has come under fire for inviting a group of recently-evicted squatters to a European championship game; far-right politicians, who criticize the team for not being "French" enough, dismissed the squatters as "illegal immigrants."
Far-right politicians criticized France soccer players Lilian Thuram and Patrick Vieira for inviting evicted squatters to watch Wednesday's European Championship qualifying game against Italy.
About 200 squatters – mostly illegal immigrants – have lived in a gymnasium south of Paris after being evicted from an abandoned university dormitory on Aug. 17.
(via Squattercity)
