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17 hours ago
- Sport
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'There is no place for racism in football': FIFA president Gianni Infantino makes a stern statement
On Sunday, a match between home side Lokomotive Leipzig and Schalke was halted after winger Christopher Antwi-Adjei said he was racially abused by home spectators. 'I repeat myself and will continue to do so. There is no place for racism in football,' Infantino said in the statement. On Sunday, a match between home side Lokomotive Leipzig and Schalke was halted after winger Christopher Antwi-Adjei said he was racially abused by home spectators. An announcement on the stadium PA was made condemning racist abuse. After the match resumed, the winger was booed repeatedly by the home support and Lokomotive issued an apology later on Sunday. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Also Read | Also on Sunday, a player from visiting side Kaiserslautern also alleged racial abuse from a member of the crowd at club RSV Eintracht. More from Football Infantino said FIFA would 'continue to closely monitor these incidents' and promised to work with the German FA (DFB) 'in the fight against racism'. The incidents come after Bournemouth winger Antoine Semenyo alleged he was racially attacked by a member of the crowd in Friday's Premier League season opener at Liverpool. Play was halted after Semenyo reported he was abused by someone in the crowd during the first half of Liverpool's 4-2 win, with Merseyside Police later arresting a man for a racially aggravated public order offence. Semenyo later said on social media the incident would 'stay with him forever' but added the response by players and officials meant 'football showed its best side when it mattered most'. Infantino, who also issued a statement on Sunday after the Semenyo incident, said Monday it was 'absolutely unacceptable that racist abuse has occurred at football matches for the second time in recent days'.
eNCA
19 hours ago
- Sport
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FIFA boss condemns racial abuse in German Cup games
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has condemned the alleged racial abuse which occurred during two German Cup fixtures on the weekend as "unacceptable", in a statement issued Monday. "I repeat myself and will continue to do so. There is no place for racism in football," Infantino said in the statement. On Sunday, a match between home side Lokomotive Leipzig and Schalke was halted after winger Christopher Antwi-Adjei said he was racially abused by home spectators. An announcement on the stadium PA was made condemning racist abuse. After the match resumed, the winger was booed repeatedly by the home support and Lokomotive issued an apology later on Sunday. Also on Sunday, a player from visiting side Kaiserslautern also alleged racial abuse from a member of the crowd at club RSV Eintracht. Infantino said FIFA would "continue to closely monitor these incidents" and promised to work with the German FA (DFB) "in the fight against racism". The incidents come after Bournemouth winger Antoine Semenyo alleged he was racially attacked by a member of the crowd in Friday's Premier League season opener at Liverpool. Play was halted after Semenyo reported he was abused by someone in the crowd during the first half of Liverpool's 4-2 win, with Merseyside Police later arresting a man for a racially aggravated public order offence. Semenyo later said on social media the incident would "stay with him forever" but added the response by players and officials meant "football showed its best side when it mattered most". Infantino, who also issued a statement on Sunday after the Semenyo incident, said Monday it was "absolutely unacceptable that racist abuse has occurred at football matches for the second time in recent days".
Globe and Mail
a day ago
- Sport
- Globe and Mail
Lokomotiv fans whistle Schalke's Antwi-Adjei after his complaint of racist abuse in German Cup game
Schalke midfielder Christopher Antwi-Adjei was whistled by Lokomotiv Leipzig supporters after he complained that he was subjected to racist abuse during the teams' German Cup game on Sunday. 'Quite simply, it was racism. I think it has no place on a football field or generally in society,' Antwi-Adjei, who is Black, told Sky TV of the initial abuse. 'I don't want to repeat the words that were used, but it's disappointing. I'm not the type to go home and cry, but still it's disappointing that it happens on the field these days.' Also Sunday, in Potsdam near Berlin, a Kaiserslautern substitute was racially abused by an individual as the unnamed player warmed up at halftime during his team's cup match at RSV Eintracht Stahnsdorf. Fans and security quickly identified and apprehended the alleged perpetrator. Antwi-Adjei broke off play in Leipzig when he was subjected to racist abuse while he was taking a throw-in in the 13th minute. He subsequently spoke with a match official on the sideline and then referee Max Burda. 'He told us he was racially abused,' Burda said. 'We didn't hear it but of course we take it very seriously and act to protect the player. For incidences of racism there's a three-point plan and we put the first point into action. That's a stadium announcement.' The stadium announcer asked fans to refrain from using racist or discriminatory language and the game resumed after a break of around three minutes with Antwi-Adjei taking the throw in. Antwi-Adjei was subsequently whistled whenever he received the ball. 'There are always a few people here in the stadium who think they can get away with anything. They think they know better,' the 31-year-old Antwi-Adjei said. 'But yeah, we keep going, we've progressed, and I hope such things don't happen so often in future.' Schalke won 1-0 with Bryan Lasme scoring the winner in extra time. 'It overshadows the whole game,' Schalke captain Kenan Karaman said. 'I signaled straight away to the referee that we wouldn't continue if it didn't stop, and luckily the referee reacted. Then the announcement came in the stadium that this kind of thing isn't tolerated and that it has no place in sport. I'm glad that Christopher handled it well and still played a good game.' Karaman said the team had been prepared to walk off the field. 'Of course. We would have stood behind Christopher and we would have stopped playing,' Karaman said. In the post-match press conference, Lokomotiv coach Jochen Seitz said the 'football festival is tainted by a single shout. That shouldn't happen. Of course, it's difficult for a club to take action when there are still 12,000 people there. And when a single idiot shouts something like that, it basically ruins the whole thing.' Seitz was interrupted by his Schalke counterpart Miron Muslić, who countered it wasn't just 'a single idiot.' 'I have to speak up because we always downplay individuals,' Muslić said. 'The whole stadium knew why the game was interrupted, and the whole stadium whistled. It wasn't just an individual.' Schalke plays in the second division while Lokomotiv is at fourth-tier level after narrowly missing out on promotion last season.
22-07-2025
- Politics
Thousands of Afghans face possible deportation after court refuses to extend their legal protection
Thousands of Afghans in the U.S. are no longer protected from deportation after a federal appeals court refused to postpone the Trump administration's decision to end their legal status. A three-judge panel of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia said in a ruling late Monday there was 'insufficient evidence to warrant the extraordinary remedy of a postponement" of the administration's decision not to extend Temporary Protected Status for people from Afghanistan and Cameroon. TPS for Afghans ended July 14, but was briefly extended by the appeals court through July 21 while it considered an emergency request for a longer postponement. The Department of Homeland Security in May said it was ending Temporary Protected Status for 11,700 people from Afghanistan in 60 days. That status — in place since 2022 — had allowed them to work and meant the government couldn't deport them. CASA, a nonprofit immigrant advocacy group, sued the administration over the TPS revocation for Afghans as well as for people from Cameroon, which expire August 4. It said the decisions were racially motivated. A federal judge allowed the lawsuit to go forward but didn't grant CASA's request to keep the protections in place while the lawsuit plays out. A phone message for CASA on Tuesday was not immediately returned. Without an extension, TPS holders from Afghanistan and Cameroon face a 'devastating choice -abandoning their homes, relinquishing their employment, and uprooting their lives to return to a country where they face the threat of severe physical harm or even death, or remaining in the United States in a state of legal uncertainty while they wait for other immigration processes to play out," CASA warned in court documents. In its decision on Monday, the appeals court said CASA had made a 'plausible' legal claim against the administration, and urged the lower court to move the case forward expeditiously. It also said many of the TPS holders from the two countries may be eligible for other legal protections that remain available to them. Temporary Protected Status can be granted by the Homeland Security secretary to people who face safety concerns in their home countries because of armed conflict, environmental disaster or other conditions. They can't be deported and can work legally in the U.S., but they don't have a pathway to citizenship. The status, however, is inherently precarious because it is up to the Homeland Security secretary to renew the protections regularly — usually every 18 months. The Trump administration has pushed to remove Temporary Protected Status from people from seven countries, with Venezuela and Haiti making up the biggest chunk of the hundreds of thousands of people affected. Homeland Security officials said in their decision to end the Temporary Protected Status for Afghans that the situation in their home country was getting better.
Powys County Times
04-07-2025
- Powys County Times
Boy's sentence for killing 80-year-old Bhim Kohli to be reviewed
The sentence handed to a teenage boy convicted of killing an 80-year-old man who was filmed being attacked, slapped in the face with a shoe and racially abused while walking his dog will be reviewed by the Court of Appeal. Bhim Kohli called out for help when he was attacked in Franklin Park, Braunstone Town, near Leicester, on September 1 last year. He died the next day with a spinal cord injury and fractured ribs. Last month, Mr Justice Turner sentenced a boy, aged 15, who punched and kicked Mr Kohli, to seven years in custody, and a 13-year-old girl, who encouraged the attack by filming parts of it while laughing, to a three-year youth rehabilitation order. Both children, who cannot be named because of their age, denied their crimes but were convicted by a jury at Leicester Crown Court. A spokesperson for the Attorney General's Office said the case will be reviewed under the unduly lenient sentence scheme. The spokesperson said in a statement: 'The Solicitor General, Lucy Rigby KC MP, was appalled by this violent, cowardly attack on an innocent man. 'She wishes to express her deepest sympathies to Bhim Kohli's friends and family at this difficult time. 'After undertaking a detailed review of the case, the Solicitor General concluded the sentence of the 15-year-old boy could be referred to the Court of Appeal. 'The court will determine if the sentence is increased or not.' Mr Kohli's daughter spoke of feeling 'angry and disappointed', adding that she believes their sentences do not 'reflect the severity of the crime they committed'. In a statement after the sentencing hearing, Susan Kohli said: 'When they are released, they still have their full lives ahead of them. They can rebuild their lives. We can't.' Mid Leicestershire MP Peter Bedford and the MP for South Leicestershire, Alberto Costa, wrote to the AGO last month asking for the sentences to be reviewed. It is understood the sentence of the 13-year-old girl will not be referred to the Court of Appeal as the threshold had not been met. A six-week trial heard that Mr Kohli's children found him lying on the ground in agony when he told his daughter that he had been called a 'P***' during the attack. The boy said in his evidence he had a 'tussle' with Mr Kohli over his slider shoe before he slapped the elderly man with it out of 'instinct', which caused the pensioner to fall to his knees, but denied kicking or punching him. In a letter written by the boy to a woman who had worked with him at the residential unit where he was being looked after, he wrote: 'I f****** hate what I did. I regret it so much. 'I have flashbacks of that day and it just upsets me. I kinda just needed anger etc releasing.' The girl had filmed a series of video clips in which the elderly man was hit with the shoe by the balaclava-clad boy and another where Mr Kohli lay motionless on the ground. She was heard laughing in the video clips which she kept in a passcode protected Snapchat folder. In his sentencing remarks last month, Mr Justice Turner said: 'I am sure Mr Kohli did nothing at all to deserve what you did. What you did was wicked. 'You made a cowardly and violent attack on an elderly man.'
