While his ATM protest from a few years back failed to properly materialise (economically, it was rather unsound), Eric Cantona's left-wing credentials are well established.
Previously noted as a banker-baiter and a staunch critic of Israel, Cantona is now promising to house and feed a family of refugees for 'at least' two years.
Cantona's empathy for the refugees is rooted in his family's history. His maternal grandparents were 'Spanish Republicans who fled Franco and crossing the Pyrenees on foot. That began our story. It certainly played a role.'
Now he's planning to provide a small house, garden and food.
I’m organising that with authorities in Marseille. If you house someone who does not have the right to work, then they need to eat too.
During the summer, Cantona attacked aspirant FIFA head Michel Platini as 'a politician, just like the rest', and in addition to criticising his support for the Qatar World Cup, attacked his decision to allow the holding of the U21 European Championships in Israel.
