Fan who shouted racist slurs at AC Milan’s Maignan faces charges

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Issued: 09/23/2021 – 20:04

Rome (AFP)

A man suspected of shouting racist slurs at AC Milan goalkeeper Mike Maignan ahead of Sunday’s game against Juventus in Turin has been identified and will face charges of incitement to hatred, the report said on Thursday. police.

The suspect was from a Juventus fan club in the Verona region.

He was identified by Juventus and the police “thanks to the stadium’s video surveillance system” and reported to judicial authorities, according to a Turin police investigator contacted by AFP.

He should be prosecuted for “inciting racial hatred” and risks a fine and a stadium ban, according to this source.

In a video posted on social media, a person could be heard hurling racist slurs at Maignan, a French international born in French Guiana, as he warmed up just before the match.

The fan club to which the suspect belonged announced on its website his immediate expulsion, “strongly dissociating itself from such behavior and strongly condemning it”.

Maignan, who arrived in Milan this summer from Lille, called for a concerted response.

“We must be more and all united in this battle against a social problem bigger than football itself,” he wrote in an article on social networks in French, Italian and English. “Do people who make decisions know what it is like to hear insults that portray us as animals.”

“I am not a ‘victim’ of racism. I am Mike, upright, black and proud,” he said.

AFP 2021

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