Chelsea FC suspends trio in 'racist' Paris Metro probe

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

19 February 2015 Last updated at 20:01 GMT

Chelsea FC suspends trio in 'racist' Paris Metro probe

Chelsea FC has suspended three people from attending its ground after a video appeared to show club fans stopping a black man from boarding a Paris train.

Life banning orders will be issued if there is deemed sufficient evidence of the fans' involvement in Tuesday's incident, the football club said.

Amateur video showed a man being pushed from the Metro train while a group chants, "we're racist, we're racist and that's the way we like it".

Police are investigating the incident.

In a statement, Chelsea, which plays its matches at Stamford Bridge, said it had received "substantial information" following a witness appeal.

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[joeybee12]

1. Jebus...

Chanting it...proud of their bigotry and ignorance.

[T_i_B]

2. Turn's out that it was a bunch of UKIP loving upper class knobs..

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/feb/19/chelsea-fan-in-paris-metro-video-posed-in-picture-with-nigel-farage

A Chelsea fan filmed while racist chants were shouted on the Paris Métro was a “vocal” supporter of Ukip, even posing with the party’s leader, Nigel Farage.

A photo posted by season ticket holder Josh Parsons on his Instagram account around four months ago shows Farage, drink in hand, next to the 21-year-old named as one of the Chelsea fans on the Paris subway. The caption underneath the photo reads: “UKIP BOYS! What a geezer.”

One former schoolmate, who did not wished to be named, said Parsons and his younger brother Beno, who he believes was in the same Paris Métro carriage as Josh on Tuesday night, were well known Ukip supporters during their time at Millfield private school more than a year and a half ago. The boarding school, based in Street, Somerset, charges fees of £30,000 a year.

“I was never really friends with them. The interesting thing was they were very strong Ukip supporters,” the schoolmate told the Guardian. He said both brothers were part of a very small but “vocal” Ukip crowd at the school.

[joeybee12]

3. Idiocy apparentlly crosses class boundaries...

What jerks/

[T_i_B]

4. To be perfectly honest...

....you've got to be pretty minted to afford to go and watch Chelsea on a regular basis these days, especially if you are going to away matches in the Champions League.

[joeybee12]

5. That's the way it is with most professional sports here nowadays...

Many people might splurge a couple times, but season ticket prices are out of reach for most.

[KamaAina]

6. Really? Who would have thought?