In the interview with Le Parisien, Souleymane S said he had not been particularly surprised by the abuse because he “lives with racism”.<\/p>\n
The father of three, a French-Mauritanian born in Paris, said he had not understood what the fans were saying but that he knew he was being targeted because of the colour of his skin.<\/p>\n
Paul Nolan told Radio 4’s Today programme it was a “threatening” scene<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Transport officers arrived but only wanted to make sure there was not a fight taking place.<\/p>\n
He said he had no idea he was being filmed, and had not told anyone about the incident.<\/p>\n
“What could I tell my children? That daddy was shoved around on the Metro because he is black?<\/p>\n
“That would be pointless.”<\/p>\n
But he said that now the incident had emerged publicly he had the confidence to file a police complaint.<\/p>\n
“These people, these English fans, need to be found and punished, and should be locked up,” he added.<\/p>\n
“What happened should not go unpunished.”<\/p>\n
Hate speech<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n UK Prime Minister David Cameron said the incident appeared to be “extremely disturbing and very worrying”.<\/p>\n It follows long-standing controversy over racism in football generally.<\/p>\n Although the episode is believed to have involved British fans, the comments made by Souleymane S also come amid disquiet over increasing intolerance in France.<\/p>\n Publishing a report on Tuesday, Nils Muiznieks, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, said France needed to take “urgent” action to combat abuse.<\/p>\n “Despite advances in legislation and measures to combat intolerance and racism, discrimination and hate speech not only persist in France but are on the rise,” he said.<\/p>\n London’s Metropolitan Police has said it is taking the Paris Metro incident “very seriously”.<\/p>\n In a statement it said it would assist the French authorities to identify the people involved and support them in any action they chose to take.<\/p>\n Chelsea FC said it would help police, and any fans involved faced a ban.<\/p>\n A spokesman for the club said the fans’ actions had “no place in football or society”.<\/p>\n British expatriate Paul Nolan, who filmed the incident on his phone, told the BBC it was an “ugly scene” and “very aggressive”.<\/p>\n Speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme he said he could hear mentions of World War Two as well as the racist chanting.<\/p>\n One voice is heard on the video singing: “Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea.”<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The man prevented from boarding a Paris Metro train by Chelsea football fans chanting racist slogans has called for them to be punished. The 33-year-old, named as Souleymane S, told France’s Le Parisien: “These people, these English fans… should be locked up.” A video shows him trying to get on a Metro carriage but being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,38,14],"class_list":["post-92996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Richelieu](\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/81075000\/jpg\/_81075625_81075271.jpg\")
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