Chelsea fans cheer on a stand before the Europa League final soccer match between Benfica and Chelsea at ArenA stadium in Amsterdam, Wednesday May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Four Chelsea fans have been given suspended jail sentences and fined by a French court in Paris on Tuesday for committing racist violence when they stopped a black Frenchman boarding a metro underground train in Paris in February 2015.
Video footage had revealed how the convicted four, who were in the city to watch their club play Paris Saint-Germain in a Champions League match, chanted: “We’re racist and that’s the way we like it” as they blocked Souleymane Sylla from getting on the train.
Richard Barklie and William Simpson, who were not in court, were given 12-month suspended sentences on charges of committing racist violence and making chants of a racist nature.
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