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Former Manchester United captain Patrice Evra has received a criminal conviction after appearing in court on Thursday.
This dates back to 2019 when his former club beat Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League.
The former defender played for Man United from 2006 to 2014, where he enjoyed a great run of success.
He managed to win five Premier League trophies during his stay and also won the Champions League in the 2007-08 season.
According to the Daily Star, Evra appeared in court in Paris on Thursday where he was fined 1,000 euros (£890) and ordered to pay compensation of £1,780.
The compensation will go to two anti-hate campaign groups following a video he made after United’s clash with PSG.
Some groups, including Stop Homophobia and Mousse, complained after the comments were published in 2019.
The two groups supported by the anti-homophobia collective Rouge Direct made the report.
‘Public insult towards a group of people because of their sexual orientation’ was the reason for the complaint.
However, the judge investigating the matter reclassified the complaint as ‘non-public insult’ and then referred it to a local police court.
The investigation concluded that Evra expressed himself in private, but the video was posted on Snapchat without his knowledge.
The former France international grew up in the country after initially being born in Dakar, the capital of Senegal.
Jerome Boursican, a lawyer, said Evra “had not wanted to harm the gay community.”
However, this did not stop him from ‘aiming [insults] at PSG’.
He posted an apology video the next day, acknowledging his mistake in recording the video in the first place.
