French football suffered its third racist episode in less than a month after an AS Nancy fan allegedly hurled insults at Red Star players on Wednesday, a situation denounced Thursday by Nancy herself.
Both clubs, playing in the third category of French football (National 1), met on Wednesday night at the Marcel-Picot stadium in Nancy (1-1) and, in the moments of the clash, the fans could be heard chanting the cry of the monkey. directed at the three black Red Star players.
Today, AS Nancy confirmed the incidents in a statement, in which it apologized to the football players of the Saint-Ouen club (outside Paris), and announced that, thanks to video surveillance, they identified ” an individual, whose identity , at the moment is unknown.” These images are also in the possession of the police.
Nancy, who played 24 seasons in the French First Division, will file a complaint against those allegedly involved in racist insults, an initiative to which the French Football Federation (FFF) will also be linked.
What happened last night was the third racist incident in French football in less than a month.
On October 1, in a youth tournament between Vierzon and Bourges, a defender of the latter team fell to the ground due to pain in his hip and received racist insults from part of the public, reflecting, once again, as imitating the cries of a monkey. The referee then decided to suspend the match.
A few days earlier, on September 21, Bernard Casoni, current coach of US Orleans and European champion with Marseille in 1993, made some controversial statements when he tried to motivate his players by comparing what he did to his previous clubs in Morocco and Algeria ..
“I achieved it with the North Africans (to progress). And they (the Orléans players) are no more idiots than the North Africans, eh?” said the former French international.
According to France Bleu, Casoni is also accused of making racist insults against five of his players in training and in the locker room.
From the 10th, the coach was suspended from his duties on the club’s bench for the third gala. “I am anything but racist, what I did was a simple comparison,” the former defender defended himself.
Source: La Verdad
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