PQ leader accepts apology from fired Montreal soccer coach over offensive comments
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Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said he 'found in Sandro Grande a man sincere in his apologies' and said he accepted the latter's apology.
The leader of the Parti Québécois has officially accepted an apology from Sandro Grande, a soccer coach who was recently fired from CF Montreal over his social media comments suggesting a former Quebec premier should have been assassinated.
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon posted a statement on his Facebook page Sunday, a few days after Grande publicly admitted and apologized for his offensive remarks about the 2012 election night shooting.
“I found in Sandro Grande a man sincere in his apologies,” St-Pierre Plamondon wrote. “And I was able to discuss the situation with his family, who obviously experienced a very difficult situation over the past few weeks.”
CF Montreal hired Grande, a former professional soccer player, as the coach of its reserve squad earlier this month. His appointment led to widespread condemnation from Quebec’s political sphere and he was promptly fired by the Major League Soccer club.
Both Grande and the team management came under fire for his years-old social media comments about the fatal shooting at Metropolis in downtown Montreal. Premier elect and Parti Québécois leader Pauline Marois was delivering her victory speech when a gunman opened fire, killing one person and seriously injuring another in September 2012.
In wake of the attack, Grande notably wrote on Twitter that the only mistake the shooter made was missing his target — in reference to Marois.
After he was fired in early January, a tearful Grande publicly apologized last week. He said he was ashamed of the comments he made, admitting he had previously denied having written them.
Grande said he was taking full responsibility for his actions and that he received a touching response from Marois after he sent her an apologetic letter.
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