Recently, a video circulated on the Internet in which Dembele spoke ill of the Asian staff who repaired the hotel's television, calling them "ugly", while Griezmann was laughing happily. Later, the video was confirmed to be the video of a 2019 barcelona trip to Japan.

In response to such allegations, Dembele published on his own INS, writing: "Hello everyone, in recent days, a private film taken in 2019 has gone viral on social media. ”
"The video turned out to be filmed in Japan, but it can actually happen anywhere on the planet, and that's how I express it, so I'm not targeting any group. Sometimes I just talk to my friends in private, no matter where they're from. ”
"Now that the video is made public, I know I may have offended a lot of people in this video, so I sincerely apologize to them."