The Liverpool fan who gave Racist insults to the Bournemouth Ghanaian player Antoine Semenyo on Friday in Anfield is forbidden to access football stadiums in England while the investigation is still open, local police announced on Monday.
The 47 -year -old Liverpool fan was expelled from Anfield after the match was interrupted in the 29th minute, after Semenyo reported the referee that he had received racist insults.
The fan was arrested on Saturday (16) and later released, but with the ban on “watching any official soccer match in the UK,” police said.
He cannot approach “less than a mile” (1.6 km) stadium either, the statement said, adding that the investigation “is still in progress and in close collaboration with the club.”
Liverpool defender and captain Virgil Van Dijk called the incident “a shame” and asked for “education of the younger generation” against racism.
Semenyo, in turn, stated that the incident, in the first match of the Premier League (with a 4-2 win for Liverpool) will mark him “forever”.
“Not because of the words of a person, but because the whole family of football has come together,” to support him, the player said through his social networks.
President of FIFA condemns racist acts in Germany
German Cup matches over the weekend were also marked by racist acts, classified by FIFA President Gianni Infantino, as “unacceptable incidents.”
“It is a terrifying to see that for the second time in recent days, racist insults have occurred in football,” Infantino said in a FIFA email sent to German press vehicles.
The first round games of the German Cup between Lokomotive Leipzig (4th Division) and Schalke 04 (2nd) and between Stahnsdorf (5th division) and Kaiserslatern (2nd) were marked by episodes of racism, according to the leader’s statements.
The first was interrupted “after Schalke Christopher Antwi-Adjei striker was the target of racist insults.”
The 31 -year -old warned player warned an auxiliary referee of the incident and the match was paralyzed for five minutes.
The other game at Karl-Liebknecht-Stadion in East Germany “was also marked by a racist insult against a Kaiserslatern player,” Infantino said.
“I repeat and will continue to repeat: there is no room for racism or any other form of discrimination in football,” said the leader.
“We are determined to ensure that players are respected and protected and that the organizers of the competitions and the authorities take the appropriate measures,” concluded the president of FIFA.
