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Paraguayan Senator Celeste Amarilla, who sparked controversy for her remarks against Kylian Mbappé, demanded on Tuesday that the French national team forward retract his statements after he called her a "despicable woman unworthy of her office" in response to her insults.
"He has to retract his statement to me, he has to retract his statement to me (because) he is messing with a senator of the Paraguayan nation, he is also messing with Paraguay," said Amarilla in a press conference at the Senate.
"Of course I was offended, and with sufficient grounds to file a lawsuit against Mbappé. Yesterday I was on the verge of doing so, I still can, let's see how far this goes," she continued, while declaring herself a victim of political violence and violence against women at the hands of the player.
Amarilla insulted Mbappé after France eliminated Paraguay in the round of 16 of the World Cup, in a contentious match that was decided 0-1 thanks to a penalty goal by the Real Madrid player.
On her social media, the opposition Liberal Party senator reacted to the result by calling Mbappé "arrogant, nouveau riche, overbearing, and ugly."
But she also questioned his origin and nationality, noting that he is a "colonized Cameroonian" who pretends to be French.
"The brute didn't even learn to write. Instead of his mother's milk, he sucked on coconuts and the most cultured thing he has ever heard in his life are chimpanzees," she added in statements that have been deemed racist or discriminatory.
However, the senator downplayed her remarks this Tuesday by indicating that some people of African descent "start crying when they are called African," in allusion to the player from the French region of Bondy, near Paris.
"There is 'jus sanguinis,' the document can say whatever it wants, but if I have a child in Japan, my child is Paraguayan. It may say Japanese on his ID, but my child will not have Japanese characteristics, my child is not going to eat Japanese food," the legislator added, citing the legal principle that recognizes national identity as the basis for a person to acquire their parents' nationality.
Likewise, the senator asked the football star that, "if he knows how to read," he review the open letter she wrote him Monday night, in which she declared that she was bothered by the French footballer's "arrogance" and acknowledged that she wrote the insults when she had "boiling blood."
"I demand that you also retract your statement to me and apologize; I will not tolerate your violence either. You don't know me, you have no idea who I am, and you have no right to say that I am a despicable woman, unworthy of the office I hold," stated Amarilla in the letter she released on her X account.
[Publicidad]