Paraguayan Senator Celeste Amarilla has doubled down on her racist tirade against France star Kylian Mbappe despite widespread condemnation of her remarks around the world. 

The politician came under fire for referring to Mbappe as a “colonised Cameroonian” and stating that the only “advanced creatures” he interacted with while growing up were chimpanzees. 

The case was debated on the floor of the Paraguayan parliament on Wednesday, and Ms Amarilla justified her statement, claiming that the Real Madrid player is not a true Frenchman. 

“When Orlando Gill, a boy who was surely setting foot in a World Cup for the first time, in Europe for the first time, was playing before the world and extends his hand with all the humility of a Paraguayan, and this son of a bitch refuses to shake his hand and yells in his face, that is not French, a Frenchman would never have done that,” the senator said. 

She added, “France is Rousseau, Descartes, Montesquieu, Victor Hugo, Simone de Beauvoir, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. I refuse to reduce all that great France and that enormous cultural, artistic, and democratic legacy to Mbappé.” 

Meanwhile, the Paraguayan Senate, on Wednesday, overwhelmingly passed a motion condemning Ms Amarilla’s attacks on Mbappe following five hours of deliberations. 

“After the modifications, the item was worded as follows: Declaration Project Rejecting the discriminatory and racist expressions of Senator Celeste Amarilla against the French national team player,” the parliament wrote on social media. 

Similarly, the Peoples Gazette reported that FIFA said it has opened an investigation into a racist abuse directed at streamer IshowSpeed during a match involving Argentina and Cape Verde at the Miami Stadium.