Paraguayan senator Celeste Amarilla asks Kylian Mbappé to apologise, alleges gender violence | OneFootball

Paraguayan senator Celeste Amarilla, who targeted Kylian Mbappé with racist abuse, has issued an open letter saying she regrets some of her words, yet demanding he apologise and accusing him of gender violence.

According to L'Équipe, Amarilla’s letter follows a tirade in which she described the France captain in racist terms, questioning his identity and deriding his appearance and intelligence. She did not fully retract those remarks.

The 61-year-old said she posted in the heat of the moment and invoked her mixed heritage. She later wrote that she regretted mistreating him with insults she says she also receives, adding that she deleted the message and understood it was humiliating.

Amarilla then demanded that Mbappé retract and apologise, saying she would not tolerate his response and labelling it gender violence. She warned she could take legal action on that basis.

She also said the insults were personal to Mbappé, not aimed at France. The senator claimed she had lived and studied there, sung La Marseillaise, spent Christmas in Courchevel and New Year in Saint-Tropez in 2026.

Source: L'Équipe