12 Mar 2015

Blues fans off to Paris court

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Video footage of Chelsea fans pushing a man off the Paris metro (AFP)

London - Five men will appear in court over the racist abuse of a black man prior to a Champions League game in Paris last month, British police announced on Wednesday.

Chelsea fans were filmed preventing the man from boarding a Metro train and singing racist songs before their Champions League last 16 first-leg match against Paris Saint-Germain.

The men will go before Waltham Forest Magistrates' Court in northeast London on March 25 "regarding a police application for football banning orders," Scotland Yard said.

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