Time.news – A new case of racism shakes Italian football after the insults against Napoli players at the Franchi. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation into racist expressions turned by Fiorentina fans to the blue defender Kalidou Koulibaly at the end of the match won by the Neapolitans.
The Federal Prosecutor investigates
The Prosecutor’s Office already has acquired the reports of their inspectors and listened to the player. Further investigative acts will be carried out by acquiring the relevant documents from the Florence Police Headquarters. The images and audio could allow to identify the authors of the offenses for which the daspo would be triggered with the consequent ban on access to all sporting events.
The insults
In the crosshairs of the vulgar offenses were also over midfielder Frank Anguissa and striker Victor Osimhen. “Monkey of m … They called me that. These subjects have nothing to do with sport. They must be identified and kept out of the stadiums: forever”, denounced Koulibaly.
The 30-year-old Senegalese defender had already been at the center of similar cases in the past, as in December 2018 when he was sent off in Milan against Inter after getting nervous about the howls that rained down from the stands. In Florence he replied to a fan in a threatening way: “Come here and tell me to my face”.
The purple apology
The case aroused immediate reactions: Fiorentina “has firmly dissociated itself from the choirs and racist offenses”. The general manager of Fiorentina, Joe Barone, informed of the incident, he apologized to the player at the end of the match expressing the closeness of society to him. Milan also intervened with a tweet to reiterate that “there must be no room for racism”: “We continue to fight together, in support of social equality and inclusion”.
The sentence
“Victor, Andrè-Frank, Kalidou: on behalf of Florence I beg your pardon”, tweeted the mayor of the Tuscan capital, Dario Nardella, “in stadiums there is no room for ignorance and stupidity“.” Koulibaly is a great champion, whoever insulted him is a petty little fellow: Florence has always condemned racism. And forever “, wrote Italia Viva leader Matteo Renzi on Facebook.
“Seeing these situations seems a paradox: today’s society no longer admits differences and these idiots make you laugh, they are childish”, commented the former national team coach, Roberto Donadoni, to the microphones of ‘Radio Anch’io Sport’. .
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