Premier League club shows Anne Frank as a corona victim
Das Stadion des FC Everton in Liverpool
Quelle: Getty Images/Catherine Ivill
Everton FC wants to commemorate the dead from the corona virus in a video. But the action becomes a PR disaster. Anne Frank also appears among the photos of the deceased. The club only reacts after hours.
DAn embarrassing mistake was made at the English football club Everton FC: In a fan video in honor of corona deaths, Holocaust victim Anne Frank was also shown. The association published the video collage from fan submissions on the weekend on the online networks. He was reluctant to respond to any indications of the error, and the video stayed online for almost seven hours.
Everton FC had called on its supporters to send in names and photos of victims of the corona pandemic and compiled the video from them. Many fans followed suit and remembered the deceased under the post on Twitter.
One of the submissions was probably the then published picture of the Jewish girl who was murdered in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 and later gained worldwide fame through the publication of her diary.
Fans shared the screenshot of the video on Twitter
Quelle: Screenshot Twitter
Fans quickly made the club aware of the error in the online networks, but it did not react for a long time. The video was later taken offline and replaced by a revised version. There are about seven hours between uploading the old and the new video.
“Rest in Peace Blues”
The video was posted less than ten minutes before the Premier League season’s opening game against Southampton, which Everton won 3-1. Everton FC declined to make an official statement. According to the British news agency PA, representatives of the association were “horrified” by the incident.
Over 130,000 people have died from the corona virus in the UK. The largest virus wave occurred in January.
The new video reads: “Today was all about you. Those who were reunited with us in Goodison, but unfortunately also those who couldn’t be there and who we lost in the course of the pandemic. Rest in Peace Blues. “
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