F1: Jean Todt plays down protester death
From GMM
FIA president Jean Todt was unmoved on Saturday despite reports a Bahraini protester has been killed during anti-F1 demonstrations. Opposition groups, calling the dead protester an "F1 martyr", claimed the latest clashes with police resulted in a body being left on the roof of a building less than 10 kilometres from the capital Manama. Sky News in Britain said the Kingdom's government declined to comment. "We know protests can have a negative result," Frenchman Todt told the BBC when asked about the reported death. "We are a governing body running sport, you can have lots of protests and there can be consequences, and I am not sure the protests would not have happened if the grand prix would not have happened." The FIA president said all the teams support the Bahrain grand prix. |
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