| The Paris Council voted on Tuesday to award the City a grant of 450.000 euros to the Paris Saint-Germain Foundation which supports the social actions of the football club, arousing the anger of Parisian environmentalists. The subsidy amounted to 170.000 euros last year, but the City increased it to compensate for its financial disengagement from the club itself and continue to “support” its social works, according to the executive. Since the 2012-2013 season, the municipality has no longer paid a subsidy to the Parisian club, majority owned by capital from Qatar. However, the agreement which provided for this subsidy (1 million euros last year) included “a social part” that the City wants to continue to ensure via an increase in its contribution to the Foundation, Jean Vuillermoz, deputy, explained to AFP. to the mayor responsible for Sports. The eleven elected representatives of the Europe Ecologie-Les Verts and related group at the Paris Council denounced “an indecent tripling of the subsidy”. |
