Paris racism victim snubs Blues offer to attend match
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The man subjected to racist chanting by Chelsea fans and pushed off a train in Paris has snubbed the Premier League club’s invitation to attend a match at Stamford Bridge.
Video footage showed a group of Chelsea fans preventing the man, named as Souleymane, entering a metro train and chanting “we’re racist, and that’s the way we like it” before the Champions League match against PSG on Tuesday. Chelsea has suspended five supporters from attending matches after conducting its own investigations.
Manager Jose Mourinho said he was “disgusted” and “ashamed” by the behavior, adding that the club would be writing to Souleymane to apologize and invite him to attend the return game against the French champion on March 11.
However, Souleymane told French newspaper Le Parisien: “I appreciate Mr Mourinho’s invitation, but I can’t get my head around being in a stadium at the moment.”
He told Guardian newspaper: “What happened has left me really afraid. I just want justice to be done, no more than that. I was a little bit hurt physically but in terms of morale I was hurt a lot. It has really affected my life. I can’t go back into the Metro, it makes me really afraid.
“I don’t think you should be denied the right to take the Metro because you’re black. That’s what they wanted.”
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