PARIS, July 15: The bitter rift between Aime Jacquet and France's top sports daily L'Equipe deepened further here with the paper accusing the French national coach of choosing `hatred' over `forgiveness'.L'Equipe editor Jerome Bureau has been a stinging thorn in Jacquet's side ever since his appointment as the national selector in 1993.But on the day that French President Jacques Chirac paid homage to Jacquet as a man that embodied all that was best in the French, Bureau went on to accuse him of lynching `those who don't think like you'.Jacquet's point blank refusal to forgive the paper and his comments on television on Monday Bureau wrote: ``Nothing justifies the way you have treated us''. Nothing legitimises the extreme violent nature of the language that you used.``I think our greatest source of pride,'' Jacquet has observed, ``is to have created a sense of communion with the French people.''Communication with the people perhaps, but certainly not with L'Equipe.
