Youcef Atal was convicted and fined. The career is also on hold. Youcef Atal of the French league Nice and the Algerian national team has received an eight-month suspended sentence and a fine of 45,000 euros for inciting religious hatred, BBC and Al-Jazeera reported. Five days after the Hamas attack in October, Atal, 27, shared on his Instagram account a 35-second video of preacher Mahmoud al-Hasanat, which is said to have contained an anti-Jewish reference and a hope that the Palestinians would be able to respond to the devastating attacks by the Israeli army in Gaza.
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Heavy consequences for sharing a half-minute social media video
