Udinese will seek to ban for life the spectators found guilty of racially abusing AC Milan goalkeeper Mike Maignan during Saturday’s Serie A tie, general manager Franco Collavino said on Monday.
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Police on Monday identified a 46-year-old man as one of those who repeated a racist phrase at the France international.
The spectator has been referred to the public prosecutor’s office and the police commissioner has handed him a five-year stadium ban, Udine police said in a statement.
« Investigative activities continue in order to identify any further subjects responsible for acts of racial discrimination, » they added.
« The possible Daspo stadium ban imposed by the judicial authorities has a limited duration, but we will work to exclude these racists from the stadium for life, » Collavino told reporters, as quoted by ANSA.
« There was no chanting, both the referee and the federal prosecutor’s office confirmed this to us… even if it was only one, it would still be very serious, » he added.
Maignan called for accountability from « the entire system » in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday, including those who abused him, those who saw everything but did nothing, Udinese and the authorities.
Ce n’est pas le joueur qui a été attaqué. C’est l’homme. C’est le père de famille. Ce n’est pas la première fois que ça m’arrive. Et je ne suis pas le premier à qui ça arrive.
On a fait des communiqués, des campagnes de publicité, des protocoles et rien n’a changé.… pic.twitter.com/47tfcW4oNo
— Magic Mike Maignan (@mmseize) January 21, 2024
Udinese said the club « deeply regrets and condemns every act of racism and violence » in a statement on Sunday, adding they would « collaborate with all investigating authorities to ensure immediate clarification of the incident ».
(Reuters)
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