Paris Opens Criminal Probe Into Senator's Racist Posts About Mbappé

French prosecutors launched a criminal investigation into racist remarks posted by Paraguayan senator Celeste Amarilla against French captain Kylian Mbappé, with France's national unit for combating online hate involved. The posts, made after Paraguay's World Cup loss to France on July 4, mocked Mbappé's Cameroonian heritage and citizenship. French law criminalizes public incitement to racial hatred regardless of the poster's nationality. Whether authorities can practically reach a sitting foreign senator is uncertain, but the referral signals the state's response to racialized political speech at the tournament.