Football: Lukaku after the goal, ‘stop genocide in Congo’ – Football

“Free Congo DR. Stop the genocide”.


Romelu Lukaku, a Belgian with a Congolese mother, launched his message via his social media at the end of the match against Feyenoord. The striker posted a photo of his celebration after the goal against the Dutch, in which to ‘celebrate’ his goal he repeated the gesture they used to make in the recent African Cup of Nations, during the playing of the anthem, the players of the Democratic Republic of Congo. An exultation that was a form of denunciation: one hand pointed to the temple in the shape of a gun and another covering the mouth.


All this to raise public awareness of what is happening in the country, which has been in a situation of real civil war for several years due to the repeated clashes, increasingly violent in the last two months, between government armed forces and M23 rebel militias. The same gesture was made several times by the ‘Simba’ fans in the stands.

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2024-02-15 21:44:28
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